skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does AMD/Intel have any hardware worth switching for or is it just an ideological question?
I enjoyed those too.. for example, Onion (Union) Square, not too far from where I live.

I talked for a while with Sussman at a Clojure conference last year, partly to let him know I enjoyed his presentation, but also to ask how his co-author was doing. I had Hal as a mentor for a short while in the 90s (less than a year) but it was a real boost to my career. Oddly, I never cracked SICP until a decade later.
What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018)
It is definitely true. The market for renewing your lease has exactly one seller.

Last time I moved I spent maybe 60 hours looking and another couple hundred hours packing, cleaning, moving, and unpacking. Call it 250 hours, plus all sorts of stress and hassle. There were also a variety of expenses involved, plus having to have two deposits in play at once.

I am definitely willing to pay more than $0 to avoid that hassle. Landlords can take advantage of that in lease renewal negotiations.

As to having this discussion here, yes, HN has plenty of free-market fundamentalists. But it also has plenty of people who see markets as a tool for optimization. Like any tool they have necessary preconditions and failure modes. You can't design the market for housing like you do the market for candy bars and expect it to work just as well. You need the right tool for the job.
Yes, I use fetchTarball to get the pinned version of nixpgs. Like this:

let
nixpkgs = builtins.fetchTarball {
name = "nixpkgs-upstream";
url = https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/a835adc10cb813d214a9069361d94a2a3f8eb3a5.tar.gz;
sha256 = "0h4lacvqmk356ihc7gnb44dni6m5qza23vlgl6w6jdhr9pjcmdcm";
};

overlay = self: super: {
# customizations
};

in import nixpkgs { overlays = [ overlay ]; }

This isn't even simplified. I just cut out the contents of the overlay. For more on how overlays work take a look at these references; they were really helpful to get me started.

https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-overlays

https://blog.flyingcircus.io/2017/11/07/nixos-the-dos-and-do...
False positives probably aren't a blocking issue. American citizens are already picked up in some sweeps, and even mistakenly deported on some occasions.

That said, they could just seed their system with a ton of fake users to make it more useless for ICE purposes.
You are looking at only part of the data and only at the part that supports your story. Donations are not all public, only donations from “little people” are public. The wealthy use Super PACS. From the Washington Post:

Meet the wealthy donors
pouring millions into
the 2018 elections
By Anu Narayanswamy, Chris Alcantara
and Michelle Ye Hee Lee
Updated Oct. 26, 2018
Wealthy donors who have given at least $1 million contributed 74 percent of the $1.1 billion that has flowed this election cycle into super PACs, which can accept unlimited contributions from individuals and corporations.

While these groups cannot coordinate their advertising with candidates or political parties, they often work closely with official campaigns, and they are influential forces in this year’s congressional midterm elections.
why, its not far from the philosophy of Henry Ford, thus completely plausible.
In my fair system, building housing on your own land would be legal.

That's how great cities are made!
We've already had this in Vancouver for the last two summers. Thankfully this year we've been given a reprieve.
It doesn’t help people evade detention at all.
I read about this in the Western press. Too bad you missed it at the time.
There's a lot of fires up north, typically about 500 to 800 fires in all of Alaska per year. It is important to realise that fires are a natural part of the ecosystem there. Black spruce (Picea mariana) trees "cause" fires to their own advantage - burning out other trees and then repopulating the area, squeezing out contenders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_mariana#Ecology

The important question is whether there is more fires than usual or less fires than usual. The fact that there are fires carries little information.

That being said, this summer in Alaska is indeed exceptionally hot:
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/07/06/alaskas-c...

This summer's exceptional temperature coincided with a bump in black spruce's pollen production causing everything to be covered in yellow:

> Spruce trees release pollen annually, but every three to five years there is a natural bump in pollen production. This cyclical process is called masting, and it flushes the forests every few years with spruce seeds, overwhelming seed-eating animals like red squirrels and white-winged crossbills, and thereby ensuring many uneaten seeds go on to germinate.
Why can’t they just detain you until you get the key?
>Quillette is undeniably associated with "the intellectual dark web," which is undeniably associated with the alt-right.

You state this as if it's fact, instead of just your opinion.

People who consider themselves public figures from "the intellectual dark web" have time and again made clear that they have virtually nothing in common with the alt-right (Sam Harris on countless occasions, for example).

In your OP you say,

>A preliminary search will turn up plenty of reprehensible authors and plenty more reprehensible articles.

Can you list some examples please? This hasn't been my experience as a casual reader of Quillette.
Aside from threatening nuclear war, I don't see what power the US has over China or India to do major sacrifices.

And that sure looks like a cure worse than the disease to me...
Quillette is an alt-right forum designed to let people try and normalize old conservative ideas such as sexism, racism, and bigotry. It came from one founder not finding much acceptance of their anti-feminist ideas.

It's a glossy pseudo-academic forum for those who would rather play victim because they got their feelings hurt. They like to play the academic, but live in a world of high-toned soundbites

https://theoutline.com/post/2307/quillette-claire-lehmann-co...
They are not the same, but Market Making requires hedging. Hedging is not usually 1:1 but rather portfolio hedging — so distinguishing prop trading from hedging is difficult except in the obvious case of prop desks where there was not hedging mandate.

Consider the London Whale incident — the entire $6b shortfall was a giant prop position passed off as a hedge.
Yes, in my experience there are people that are natural runners and there are those who are not. I myself am running for 18 years already, around 2 times per week and even in my best form never reached 8 miles in one hour. A friend of mine picked up running and surpassed me after a few months. People are different, and GP forgot that!
Humpback whales make stunning comeback in southern Africa
also in my early thirties and wanting to escape the 'grind' mindset. What sorts of things do you give less of a crap about?
Can you please not take HN threads further into flamewar? That's in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. So is "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
It helps other people know you’ve been detained, so they can try to help you or make sure that things you care about are taken care of.
I talk to a lot of people about animal products in our food and the treatment of those animals. In my experience, I really disagree that we're talking about the same phenomenon.
I hope it stays in Minneapolis and doesn't spread outside of the city for a number of reasons. I enjoy living in a neighborhood of houses and families where we have some space and nature visible vs tar and housing complexes. Its one of the reasons why I don't live in or closer to Minneapolis.
Very much so. My uncle, a well educated and curious person had no idea Americans landed on the Moon. He learned that only around 1989 and was profoundly shocked.

There was astronomy course in Soviet high school curriculum in 1980s but no mention of the landings in the textbook. And the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia article on Apollo 11 was probably one of the tersest in the whole publication :)
> You state this as if it's fact, instead of just your opinion.

It is fact. You cannot have read anything about Quillette without also knowing that it's associated with the alt-right.

I've never understood why alt-right people feel the need to dogwhistle even to people who are familiar with that strategy. If you're going to have these opinions, you can at least acknowledge and stand by them. The only time you're wasting here is yours.

> People who consider themselves public figures from "the intellectual dark web" have time and again made clear that they have virtually nothing in common with the alt-right (Sam Harris on countless occasions, for example).

> Can you list some examples please? This hasn't been my experience as a casual reader of Quillette.

Sam Harris believes in scientific racism, so you can start there.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended?
From linked article:

"Of the carbon-rich biomass generated by plankton blooms, half (or more) is generally consumed by grazing organisms (zooplankton, krill, small fish, etc.) but 20 to 30% sinks below 200 meters (660 ft) into the colder water strata below the thermocline. Much of this fixed carbon continues into the abyss, but a substantial percentage is redissolved and remineralized. At this depth, however, this carbon is now suspended in deep currents and effectively isolated from the atmosphere for centuries. (The surface to benthic cycling time for the ocean is approximately 4,000 years.)"
> This is an extremely bad way to think about handling your financial future. I feel like too many people engage in these risky bets not only with student loans, but also with investments. But consider, what if student loans are not forgiven? Here you would sit at, what? 40, or 45, not having paid anything on your loans. That's a horrible idea.

I'm not saying you shouldn't pay anything on your student loan debt. This is in reply to the guy telling you to "pay off all your debt as soon as possible", which is common advice from some of these people that are all about financial responsibility. It's not necessarily good financial advice though.

Most likely you should be paying off any other form of debt before paying off your student loan debt. Also, sometimes defaulting on overwhelming debt is actually the right thing to do. Sometimes bankruptcy is the best solution (not applicable to student loans, but still).

In an environment where almost everyone around you (up to the federal government) is "financially irresponsible", being financially responsible yourself can put you squarely on the losing side. It's happened over and over again in history.
The “intellectual dark web” isn’t a real thing. Outside of Eric Weinstein, who coined the term, those who try to trade on being part of it (e.g. Rubin, Shapiro) are largely the reason why the term has become associated with toxicity. Indeed some of the other “members” of the IDW (e.g. Harris, Rogan) find the whole idea to be a bit silly.

I’ll also point out that you’re calling me “disingenuous” in one breath while broadly painting several individuals with wildly different politics, audiences, and personal ethics with the term “alt-right” in another.
>which was done using literal programming

I presume you meant "Literate Programming" (one invented by Don Knuth)?

Regarding this project, can you share some more details as to how everything was done from requirements to implementation? How were they seamlessly linked together?
The worst place I was at treating vacation as if it was granted (it expired at the end of the year) but actually accrued it to you
Ok, slightly off-topic, but here goes - a great piece of music:

So, the Romans finally destroyed Carthago (took them a while, Punic war 1, 2, and 3), with Cato egging them on ("Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam").

(I find it interesting for two reasons: 1. Alternative history - what if Carthago (Hannibal) had won?? 2. The Roman general who defeated Hannibal, Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator a) is my namesake :-) and b) won by... doing not much, just staying away and picking up the pieces (cunctator = "the delayer, doubter"). "Cunctator" is not as sexy as "Terminator", but he turned out effective nonetheless.)

But next, so Virgil's Aneid has Aneas visit Carthage, in particular the queen Dido, and they fall in love, but then he, duty bound, leaves (clandestinely at night), to found Rome. She, crestfallen, commits suicide (after predicting eternal strife between Aeneas's people (Rome) and hers (Carthage)).

This was set to music by English composer Purcell in Dido and Aneas, with the famous piece "Dido's Lament" - she sings before committing suicide:

When I am laid // am laid in earth,
may my wrongs create // No trouble,
no trouble in // in thy breast
Remember me, remember me, // but ah! forget my fate.
Remember me, but ah! // forget my fate."

The piece is brilliant - a simple underlying musical structure (Passacaglia - a constant repeated bass line) with her heart-felt lament. Check out the versions linked below (YouTube links), by Jeff Buckley or Janet Baker or Jessye Norman or any other. I mean, this did not happen, and 2500+ years ago, but still can make you tear up today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punic_Wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Maximus_Verruco...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA5UAbl1OWY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOIAi2XwuWo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_50zj7J50U

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido%27s_Lament

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passacaglia
Lee could have done that at any point in the four years prior (or held to his oath and not killed fellow citizens at all). Surrendering gracefully in a war in which you had been thoroughly beaten the year before, so you can live out your life in comfort is an awfully low bar.

The violence didn't quite go away, either. It just moved out West.
Nobody calls people “legals”.
Plotly missed a chance at revenue here! I would have happily kicked in $10 to fuel the graphs on this page. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be an option.

I get their approach to pricing in theory, but I have to say it leaves me with a negative association. Here they have a chance to show off their chart product, build their brand, and maybe acquire some customers. Now my association with Plotly is "shit's broke".
Are there any Win10 themes - to make it look more like Win7?
Now you’ve labeled someone who simply disagreed with you with the “alt-right” epithet. You are demonizing anyone who disagrees with —or asks you to clarify the provenance of— your specific conclusions. You could stop, but first you’ll need to stop and ask yourself how you’ve come to know what you think you know.

(Reworded some unnecessarily churlish language)
How far can this premise be pushed? And will I one day be able to get it in a surface mountable package?
In reverse order:

> Are you telling me that the company is lying about the benefits it provides,

No, I'm telling you that there's a difference in requirements for taking sick leave versus vacation. The only reason that sick leave doesn't have the same requirement as vacation is you don't choose when you get sick. If you take a sick day as a vacation day, you're forcing others to scramble to make up for you not being there.

> Why is it abuse if I use my PTO?

Perhaps you missed my intended emphasis on certain jobs that have time or safety sensitive responsibilities, such as nursing. It may not hurt the company for you to take those 10 days, but it does hurt whoever gets called in to fill in for you when they otherwise would have had off.

Here's a simple, real-world example: A company that runs a group-care home for disabled adults is currently understaffed due to a number of circumstances (the difficulty of the job being the biggest). There are four employees to cover 21 8-hour shifts each week (24 hours a day, 7 days a week total).

If someone calls in sick, the one of the others has to cover the shift. Under no circumstances can the house ever be unstaffed. Aside from a bit of overtime pay, the company isn't hurt, but everyone else is.

Not all jobs are like this. The consequences of taking a sick day as a vacation day (or simply being sick) usually aren't that severe. Maybe it's a manufacturing line and the manager has to step in to fill your role or something. Maybe it has no effect at all on anyone around you. In those cases, maybe it doesn't make sense for the company to distinguish between time off for being sick, and time off for vacation.

> The whole point of PTO is that the company is agreeing to give you 10 days worth of slack.

No, that's only true if the company doesn't distinguish between sick time off and vacation time off. Typically, where I've worked, all PTO was lumped into a single bucket, and no-one really cared. However, that is really more true of white collar work with long timelines and not so much in most other jobs (or the parent post I was replying to).
That's only really an issue for the courts because, in practice, everyone is removable in one form or another. Maybe you are "illegal" or maybe the president just inspires some nut to remove you from mortality with a not-so-coy "if you don't like it here, get out"
Australians making music with computer code
Thanks for all the advice!

This is my compute "cluster" and I don't usually have windows running on it, just tossed it on there do some bios modifications to my compute cards.

I just thought I would provide some insight to the conversation!
I don't think it is condescending. He definitely has a point and it is not something one would want for ones' child. It is not what one hopes for.
Glad to see a confirmation I'm not imagining things. My memory of those times has faded considerably, but this is one of those things that shocked me so much that I remember it better than others.
Melting plastic waste could heat homes
How does this help anyone evade anything? It's for notifying contacts when you're about to be detained, not for avoiding being detained.
I highly recommend to you to post your question on the Bogleheads forum [1], specifically within its "Non-US Investors" category/sub-forum. There is a lot of expertise in that forum regarding international investing in general & focus on maintaining a simple, efficient index based portfolio with low costs.
You may also find their wiki [2] page on Non-US investing useful.

[1] https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php
[2] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Outline_of_Non-US_domiciles
I’m guessing here, but maybe the DOJ has seized domains being used to serve child pornography and things like filmed massacres, beheadings, etc.
Please don't do ideological flamewar on HN. It's not what this site is for, and it eats what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please don't do ideological flamewar on HN. It's not what this site is for. Also, personal attacks are definitely not ok—we ban accounts for that—so would you please review the site guidelines and use HN as intended?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lee Atwater (1981): Interview with Alexander P. Lamis: Rough Transcript
If we still require oil, gas and coal in 50 or 70 years we're fucked anyway.
My German grandfather was born in an internment camp on Vancouver Island, not unlike what the Americans did to the Japanese in WWII.
Sorry, no. If HN is syndicating alt-right hate magazines, I'm going to call it out, and keep calling it out. That's eating more than HN, it's eating society. If you're complicit, then I'll call you out too. This is not the time in history to prioritize civility.
Ask HN: What are the alternatives to content marketing for SEO?
The internet is an SEO landfill (to quote a recent HN article) due to ever-growing meaningless content.

What alternative methods can we use for SEO without creating even more throwaway content?
yeah, increasing your skill is easily worth $100. Back when I was employed as a developer, I bought all kinds of educational stuff. Now that I'm working on startups, everything's gotta be free.
Can anyone break this down into something non-clickbaity?
> Wouldn't it be easier to just use Linux?

A couple of years ago (when Skylake was new CPU) I tried dual-booting Linux with the then-current version of Arch and it crashed (completely froze) when using integrated intel graphics. Tweaking kernel boot parameters (turning on experimental support for the chipset) as suggested in the documentation didn't help either. Not to mention I have a HiDPI display and tweaking appearance of everything was a pain.

Suspend didn't work. With windows, I don't turn off the computer, I choose "sleep". Uptime regularly over 1 month, usually interrupted only by Windows updates.

Wiped the whole thing. Now, if I need Linux tools, I boot up WSL.

EDIT: Before I was a long-term Linux user. Never worked smoothly (e.g., concurrent audio playback/mixing from different programs), always had to tweak this and that. It was fun when I was younger, Linux was newer, and less bloated and more easily understandable. Now I just need to get shit done w/o OS getting in my face all the time, so I use Windows.
The article links to another saying that bfloat16 is coming to Xeons. Also the title of the current says it too. There's nothing implying less likely if you read the articles.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/12/16/intel-unfolds-roadma...
https://jacquelinestevens.org/US-Unlawfully-Detaining.Steven...
Oh no way, you're Tristan Hume! My high school science research project was based on the eye tracking thing you made a while back :)
I also have a tungsten cube, although I rather like the archaic name wolfram. I fully second your 10/10 recommendation. Best paperweight I ever owned.

Oh yeah and your webpage has plenty of other great pieces too. Thanks for this!
It's penalized on HN the same way we downweight all mostly-political or ideological publications. But such sites do come up with the occasional interesting article, and on HN we care about the article, not the site. Same with Jacobin or something like that.
No, the consequences don't disappear. But, if you're in a position where when there's a difference in notice required for planned (vacation) and unplanned (sick) time off, and you take sick time off for vacation, you're effectively creating an unnecessary disruption. Maybe the manager has to scramble to find someone willing to come in on short notice. Maybe a temp staffer has to be hired in from an agency. Maybe that's not feasible, and someone has to work a double shift. Depends entirely on the job.

If it doesn't matter, then the company shouldn't be distinguishing between vacation and sick time off anyway. If it does matter, then personally I wouldn't want to work with someone who would do that.
They do put extensive precautions in place for over water duel engine flights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS

“Avoidance of multiple similar systems maintenance.
Maintenance practices for the multiple similar systems requirement were designed to eliminate the possibility of introducing problems into both systems of a dual installation (e.g., engines and fuel systems) that could ultimately result in failure of both systems. The basic philosophy is that two similar systems should not be maintained or repaired during the same maintenance visit. Some operators may find this difficult to implement because all maintenance must be done at their home base.”

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_07/etops....
Definitely wasn’t intending to do that. Is the edit sufficient? Should I remove the wrapped language entirely?