skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AY's on the right track and UBI would reduce inequality with a simple and effective plan, but the problem is he seems to be an one-issue candidate, and those are rarely perceived to be equipped to lead (i.e., overall strategy, track-record and stated positions on issues) and don't appeal to enough voters.
Same. And I was in a bunk bed. :(

Almost killed my friend, who just happened to move his bed away from the bookshelf the day before. The bookshelf smashed to the ground right where his bed had been.

We also had to dig my grandparents out of their house with shovels.
Ok, we changed to that from https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252466203/Top-VPNs-secre.... Thanks!
You can see something similar in the Valley of Fire in Overton, Nevada. If you go on a Fire Canyon Road and look south, you can see the green hills in the back with red rocks in the middle and white in the foreground. It’s pretty surreal.
Maybe 7 cents?
If you feel like it, look at my previous comments, I post something with evidence and ad hominem attacks ensue. It's exhausting.

I figure some people don't know about this, so they will look it up.

People who are reactive will vote me down regardless of what I say or proof I provide.

There is so much evidence of corporate manipulation of the high level government posts is nauseating.
I can load YouTube just fine over Tor
Humans are the same everywhere. Corruption is universal.
I'd honestly agree with that assessment given the situation at the time. Canada is more valuable than Guadeloupe in a vacuum, sure, but in the context of geographic and naval concerns Guadeloupe was likely more of a net positive to France. The primary output of sugar was much more economically important, and the relative size just adds defense costs for Canada. Also, while the main port in Guadeloupe is relatively unsheltered and poor, it is well-situated strategically in the Carribean against their main rivals (English and Dutch).
I think, it serves its purpose pretty well. All those parantheses of a real-world Lisp program may be quit intimidating, but here you get it pretty easily.

And I believe as well that a programmer with a bit of experience should get the examples right, since familiarity and naming of things should help with the more complex examples. E.g., you know what a factorial is. And even, if you don't know the quicksort algorithm, you get it that there's some middle and a left side and a right side and some comparison. So it has to be some kind of sorting algorithm, and from there you may figure out the details, which again solidifies your understanding of the basic language concepts.
If you're not productive on your four-day weekends, and if you think your job isn't worth anything in the ultimate sense, you will wake up one day and be 79 without having done much of anything.
yeah, according to their FAQ:

> Jumpstart is a surplus lines insurance broker working in full compliance with applicable insurance regulations. The insurance described here is effected with certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London.
> You're grossly over simplifying if you call things like that a list of features.

What I'm saying is lists of features don't matter. It didn't even have 3G on launch, but because it made so much more sense to use is why it was successful.

> I couldn't do the basic things I was able to do on a windows phone or even my flip phones before that.

You couldn't. The average person didn't know how to use those features on windows mobile.

> inertia of iPod innovation counts for precisely nothing at the release of the iPod

What was different about the iPod in 2008 vs 2001? The wheel was touch instead of clicky? The basic interface never really changed, it's just that it started to be more widely viewed as innovative.

> The iPhone wasnt even in the same league as WebOs phones as far as UX; why didn't Palm make it very far? (Because UX counts for a lot less than you think)

I'll give you webos had a far better interface, but it was evolutionary post-iPhone. And it WAS initially successful. But did you ever use one? It was slow as shit and the hardware was jank, which is why sales lagged.

And then Apple poached some of the Palm guys to work on iOS.

> The modern Apple is a marketing titan and the fact that anyone thinks they're largely innovative is a testament to their marketing prowess.

Look at the phones pre-2008 (including Android). Look at the phones post-2008. It's delusional to think that was "marketing prowess," it was the average person looking at how the iPhone functioned and it made way more sense to them than the god-awful interfaces everyone had to deal with. Most phones didn't even have threaded SMS until iOS. No one else had a desktop-class web browser. Apple completely changed the expectations for mobile UX.
There are earthquakes, and then there is the ground shaking that results from earthquakes.

The magnitude scale that is most used is an expression of the total energy release in the earthquake is called the 'moment magnitude' or 'work magnitude' because it's measured in those units (Newton meters or dyne-cm). It is calibrated to be similar to the original Richter scale, which was an empirical, I believe unitless, scale based directly on seismometer readings. If someone credible says that an earthquake is a 3 or a 7 or something, they are almost certainly referring to the moment magnitude. The 1989 Loma Prieta event was a M 6.9 event, Northridge was M 6.6 or 6.7.

There is another measure called the 'intensity' that you may be referring to with the 'apparent magnitude' reference. This is a non-quantitative, basically ranked categorical description of the amount of ground shaking and subsequent damage that occurred. The most common intensity scale is the Modified Mercalli intensity scale; it is usually (and correctly) denoted in Roman numerals. The Wikipedia page for the Mercalli scale [1] is good, however I prefer [2]. The intensity has a sort of tree-falling-in-the-woods element to it: the categories are based on how people and the built environment respond to the earthquake, so did earthquakes in the 4.6 billion years before humanity have intensities? They had magnitudes.

Quantitatively, ground shaking is measured as 'peak ground acceleration', a force, usually compared to gravity 'g' (i.e., 9.81 m/s^2), as 'peak ground velocity' which is a velocity (m/s), or as 'peak ground displacement' which is a distance.

The intensity of an earthquake will be related to the peak ground acceleration and velocity, as well as the duration of the shaking. These are functions of both the earthquake properties (magnitude, faulting style, depth) as well as the properties of the ground in the region of the earthquake, and the distance from the earthquake (as the amplitude of the waves decreases with distance). Solid rock does not shake nearly as much as loose or wet sediment, for example, and some geologic basins that are deep pockets of sediment surrounded by bedrock can amplify earthquake waves and make the shaking locally much worse than it was elsewhere, even closer to the earthquake. This was a big deal in Loma Prieta, for example--the damage in Oakland, built on water-saturated sediment, was worse than in some of San Jose, or in my (current) house in the Santa Cruz mountains just a few km away (I was safely dodging tornadoes in Tulsa at the time).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Mercalli_intensity_sc...
[2]: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/levels-of-the-mercalli-s...
Mario creator Miyamoto counters cloud gaming hype (but don’t count Nintendo out)
When people go to China for the first time I always recommend that they go walk through a Walmart there precisely for the reason that it is a friendly and familiar place, but also highlights just how different the food culture is in that country vs. at home. I'm pretty sure it was the only piece of tourism advise my Chinese colleague gave me when I went for the first time, and I've passed it on ever since.
I used to put my data on dropbox but I'm increasingly not comfortable putting my personal data on devices out of my control. Now I just do a daily local rsync backup. I also use syncthing to keep the documents, music and photos in sync between my laptop and phone (with all that, my phone's 128GB storage is less than 60% utilized).
Hey folks creator here. I often find on sites like HN/Reddit that I tend to mostly just read the headlines/comments and not necessarily the articles themselves.

I wanted to build a site that is more aligned with that use case. I was partially inspired by Wikinews but wanted to lower the barrier to entry for participation. On Hoxly News, each story is a collection of facts which link to a source URL. Facts can be independently up/down voted and in aggregate form a TLDR style summary.

Stories also support a threaded comments section similar to HN.

Instead of ads to fund the site I decided to build a "credit" system where users purchase credits to perform various activities around the site. You can read more about that here: https://news.hoxly.com/credits.

Feedback is appreciated.
One of the issues in an earthquake is potential damage to the major distribution pipes. From “source” to “buffer” (local reservoirs used to maintain pressure) and the extent to which things in the network of pipes can be rerouted depends a lot on how it was built. In heavily built up areas there’s often “secondary buffers” like storage on the roofs of buildings in New York City.

Pressure in the “customer end” of the water supply network will still be available for a little while (minutes to hours) in the event of damage but damage will take time to repair and the impact of the damages ongoing effect and the time to repair make one of the most basic survival tips for the average person not otherwise maintaining survival supplies: “fill the bathtub and anything else you’ve got”. You might have 15 minutes before the broken pipe washes away enough dirt that pressure drops enough to stop the flow from your tap.
learning your first programming language is hard (for an arbitrary measure of hard)

when you start learning your second language you think that it's going to be just as hard. it's only after you are well into learning it that you find out that the languages are very similar, and from then on out learning new languages becomes easier.

most programming languages are similar. (there are few exceptions) it just takes learning a few to realize that.

this post makes an excellent argument to point that out.
I'm from Nepal. We had a 7.8 earthquake in 2015 which was pretty devastating.

When the first quake happened, I did run. But it didn't really occur to me that we'd had an earthquake until after. It was like I was auto responding to an emergency, but the mind hadn't had time to process that it was an earthquake.

And, this is considering the fact that we'd sort of known that a big one was due soonish.
Very impressive write-up. I didn't realize that the brain could get this wrong.
Sorry, but I don't agree with your premise in this case. How is adding another competitor a bad thing? If Amazon offers Internet via LEO satellites, and SpaceX does the same, and you have your regular telecoms using copper lines, and some wireless carriers offering 4G, and perhaps some community operators offering wireless -- how is all of this competition worse than a utility being provided by the government, which has absolutely no incentive to compete -- and can by law stop new entrants into the market?
Yes, I think it's somewhat recent. The previous time I checked it didn't let me, now it does. I found this from 6 months ago mentioning it might only be US accounts[1], and this from March[2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/a59knq/ysk_p...

[2] https://benbrian.net/authenticator-app-support-in-paypal-fin...
Applied Cryptography Is Banned in Oregon Prisons
Totally. The fact that the sound just comes from everywhere makes you realize how puny you are. The massive rock you've lived on forever, and get by day to day without thinking about in detail, is all of a sudden very, very real.
House Rules (2018)
You are assuming that he is trying to win. Being 1 issue is a great way of advocating for that issue. If you aren't going to win anyway, it is probably a more influential approach than trying to advocate a little bit for everything. He got the idea into the national discourse. Now 4/8/16 years from now, we are more likely to hear it from more viable candidates. Just look at what happened with Bernie's policy positions (although his were so popular that he someone managed to almost win the primary).

As an added bonus to Yang, this could give him name recognition that would be beneficial for his future political career.
Meanwhile, the Porsche CEO recently wrote an opinion piece for USA Today where he writes "Porsche thinks you’ll want your next car to be electric"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/06/17/porsche-pr...

And they've been making a lot of noise about their plan to shift their lineup to full electric (not watered down hybrids) for some time now.
From petty crime, I suspect, yes. Why, because even when criminals are convicted they spend very short periods of time in prison (if at all). And, on release, they have much less chance of integrating into normal society than previously and fall into a pattern of reoffending, going to prison, reoffending, and so on.

In the UK, it seems, almost everyone has a tale about when they were burgled, when they were mugged or when their car was broken into.

Is this so in other countries, I think not?
I think that depends on the dominant frequency of the earthquake.
Indeed. Also consider that vikings managed to colonise Iceland but not Greenland.
We have at least recently ended the appalling practice of non-time-limited police bail.

It still takes 2-3 years to get to trial for serious offences during which time your name and face are plastered all over the papers (at least locally).

Mounting a successful defence can cost 10s to 100s of thousands of pounds.

Fighting off charges of which you are innocent is not fun. If we assume that the UK's system is good enough to just increase the arrest rate and it will all come out in the wash this would destroy many people's lives.
I have an infant and going to the gym or a run is about as free as it gets these days. It's a hobby so I don't understand how is that not "free time".
The cli hello world exits with the main return value.
>but it's still deterministic

Undefined behavior means the standard says demons can fly out of your nose. Those demons might behave nondeterministically.
> Are Puerto Ricans not Americans?

They really aren't treated as such, particularly of late. I doubt many would be against it, though this is 100% an outside perspective and I agree with others that it should be self determination via vote if it was ever to occur.
Is this what makes clear plastic card sleeves stick together? I always figured it was static electricity but maybe it's this?
Boxcryptor solves that problem for the most part... That being said, rsync works really well. I use it to copy files to and from the Synology.
Oh I don't need any convincing that many people are happy with Apple's designs. People are happy to carry dongles to compensate for miniscule no. of ports, deal with accidents due to removal of magsafe, getting rid of escape key, bad keyboard (never thought developers would be ok with the last two) etc etc while insisting on continuing to buy fairly expensive Apple products. It pretty much underlines that Apple can basically get away with murder.
I think people get uppity when "common courtesy" becomes a policy proposal.

I personally have no problem referring to someone by a preferred pronoun or whatever (though I'll ask that you choose one of the two traditional options), but I don't want it to become a policy that I have to comply with. If I'm forced to do something I would otherwise do if asked nicely, I will resist.

And that's where the culture part of it comes in. When I see stuff on the media, I think ahead to elections. I have no problem with PC culture on a personal level, but I absolutely don't want that to extend to the governmental or workplace levels. I applaud people for courageously being who they are instead of trying to present a false, but more socially familiar persona. However, that doesn't mean it should be illegal or against office policy to not follow personal requests, even if it takes a lot of courage to make them.

That is why I push back on PC culture. I think it all stems from holding freedom of speech to be inalienable. I want to interact with you in a respectful manner, but I don't want to be forced to.
Why should an innocent richer person have to use their life savings defending a charge of which they are innocent? (Of course the poorer person would be found guilty and sent to prison so the system is even more unfair for them.)
Now that's a name i haven't heard in a long time. Pike too for that matter. Quite interesting to see that Pike still an active project.
Because we have allowed 'the market' to control what skills we value and we have become increasingly specialized, probably to our own detriment. No matter how valuable it may be to have practice in many skills and tools and physical feats, according to the modern market it ain't worth shit if it isn't earning more money than whatever 'specialized' labor you can perform. Self-reliance, sustainability and being frugal are valued less than chasing the market with long specialized work hours and trying to purchase the lost time back through rampant consumerism and selfish convenience, whether that is what you like or not.

Time is at a premium which makes gaining more knowledge, skills, and physical aptitudes outside of your paid labors a luxury. Perhaps if people were working a 30 hour week and making enough to sustain themselves they would have more time to have such hobbys and ambitions, but most jobs that pay enough to thrive off 30 paid hours a week require far more than just 30 hours a week of work to stay employed. And most jobs that do have people working only 30 hours a week usually don't pay enough to comfortably sustain somebody.
Veracrypt is a great piece of software, but it isn't as easy to integrate across various platforms. Boxcryptor is great because they have iOS/Android/etc. apps.
Just keep in mind that users are not the ones who is planting the trees. Users generate revenue for Ant Financial, which in turn donates some of its profits to 2-3 NGOs that actually do plant something somewhere.
They can grow together but will take longer than a week. There's a man the had his hand degloved and they sewed it into his stomach to heal, after which they cut his hand back out and used his stomach skin to wrap around and reshape some resemblance of a hand.

Example 1: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4303135/surgeons-save-hand-sew...

Example 2: https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19517212/carlos-mariotti-...
The only unmasked protester who broke into Hong Kong’s legislature
They have an app "Cloud Sync" which replicates the entire NAS onto a cloud provider. I do a backup to Azure, as mentioned in the post, which makes it easy to recover in the event of something going haywire.
Maybe stop cutting trees ?
Northridge was violent beyond belief. I lived less than a mile from the epicenter at the time. I remember it distinctly because I stayed up coding all night. It hit at 4:31 AM (the image of the digital clock on the shelf is seared into my mind). It felt as what I can only describe as a train going through the house.
I didn't read the functions to answer questions and I got 7/7.
As a programmer when I see "qs" and a list I can understand its quicksort (also "fact" and a number).
Over 40 years in AZ and same experience.
Temporal lobe epilepsy?
OF COURSE there will be erroneous convictions. There would be erroneous convictions even if a crime was performed right inside the courtroom, in front of a judge and jury and CCV camera.

I suppose using colloquial language by using universal phrases for the sake of clarity is a 'no-no' because some pedant will call you out on it. How about this: "Convictions due to facial recognition false positives are low probability outliers to the extent that they will not impact the civil rights of citizenry".. Is that better? Does that improve conversation? Should we not provide a modicum of charity in interpreting the arguments of others?

BTW, you realize you undermined your point as well?

DNA is an incredible forensic tool, that outweighs any outliers. If you're claiming facial recognition is or is going to be like DNA identification, you lost your argument.
Hey, please don't add personal attacks on top of your substantive points in HN threads. It helps nothing and makes the thread nastier and evokes worse from others. Also it's against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Now distinct muscles then squats do?
> A lot of programming languages today, like javascript, already has functional stuff within it

Yeah, but there's more to it than just that. You can find bits and pieces of good things in Clojure that influenced other languages, but in Clojure, they just feel right. Take, for example, immutable data-structures - there were many attempts to implement them for different languages, but somehow the way how they work in Clojure just feels subjectively better. Or the REPL. Of course, you'd say: Javascript has a REPL, Python has one, etc. But if you dig deeper, you'd find out that Clojure's REPL is somewhat better (it is hard to explain, one has to experience what makes it better). Standard library: Javascript is like a complete meth-head here - there's folktale, crocks, sanctuary, ramda, fantasyland, lodash, lodash-fp, immutable.js, etc. and you know, sometimes "more" is not necessarily "better"; Python's praised batteries can also be pretty frustrating. Whereas Clojure's standard library somehow feels much nicer and has a minimum amount of surprises. Stability of the language is almost legendary. Migrating a project from one version of Clojure to another won't cost you your leg.

Yes, Clojure is not a silver bullet (there's no such thing as "the best general purpose PL"), but it's specifically designed to minimize the frustration. And if you felt different, you probably haven't had enough exposure to it.
I hear you, but I don't rely on security through obscurity for /all/ of my data. ;)
A crisis worth facing, and the sooner the better. Emiratis need to get the fuck into the 21st century. Brits, how seriously do you take your values? What is your selling price?

I hope she hires a good team of body guards, tells all about the head lopping royal family, and never ever goes back.
Please tell me you dug them out alive?
That's because they have no incentive to, and for the most part, neither do their patients.
Please don't do flamewar or post personal attacks, even if another account is doing that.

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How safe is it to setup a VPN (via Wireguard or something) with AWS?
Please do not take HN threads into partisan battle. This is off topic here.

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It's not even about programming languages at this point. It's Peopleware. People are the number 1 cause of all problems in software.
Perhaps the internal combustion engine is the last dying gasp of analog propulsion. Internal fire will be left to rockets.
Advertisment is the root of many today’s time. Marketers could argue that it is just about helping people to find the right product or service, but this is another lie. Maybe a lie you have tell yourself if you are working in that field.