skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IDs are not a problem in principle. But there is barely any voter fraud at all (see Trumps commission), thus no real reason to enact law. Why do politicians non the less spend their political capital doing so? Often their new rules just so happen to help the people voting for them and hinder their opponents. North Carolina [0] was one of the more egregious cases.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/voter-id-laws...
> 8chan are absolutely a hated minority

They're almost ubiquitously unknown.

> they have lax moderation

I refer to the boards ideological content, not its own governance, although there are arguments to be made that informal, social governance employs Patriarchal tropes to keep users in line.

> so long as we are discussing American politics

We're not. We're discussing an international propagandist forum.

> I don't think those alternate conceptions are relevant. Clinton is clearly further left than Trump.

The USA has never had a "Leftist" administration in any meaningful sense.

Edit: your attitude strikes me as suspiciously apologetic on behalf of an atrocious, violent reactionary movement. If this is due to naivete, I hope the previous ly cited texts can alleviate it. If this is due to your own Patriarchal reactionary bent, we're done; I've no reason to spar with a dishonest partner.
My company works with a lot of active duty US military personnel and when I was starting out in our Helpdesk almost all of our military customers used government issued computers to use our product. These guys and gals all used IE because that is what they had. I don't know if the government only allows IE or if they just don't have the privileges needed to install anything else but this is why we unofficially support IE still.

We also had a lot of customers who didn't know that the internet existed outside of "the blue 'E'". With those ones I usually helped get Firefox installed.
In my opinion, you really can't rely on statistics for personal drives because your sample size is so small. The important things for me when considering a drive are (in rough order of importance):

- warranty and customer service
- price
- noise
- performance

You can get lucky and have a drive that lasts 10 years, or you can get unlucky and have a drive die in days. Either way, you'll need a solid backup strategy and be able to be without the drive for a week or two.

That being said, I appreciate the data that they put out, and it makes me want to use their service more. I think it's interesting that they continue to use Seagate drives more than most others despite them having higher failure rates, which reminds me that you really need to look at it from a cost/benefit perspective. It's also interesting to see just how reliable drives are (on average) even when used improperly.

In short, no, I don't think they should be used when deciding which drive to buy. All drives are pretty good, so find the one that's going to make ownership and replacement the most pleasant.
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Connection refused is way better for the average server stack than timeouts or even worse accepted connections with transfer rates of 30 seconds per byte. "Connection refused" is a huge signal flare going off instantly, timeouts and extreme slowness will by definition take longer to notice while impacting systems, even if your monitoring were perfectly set up to look for it.
Can't you send a body with a GET request? Why change the request to POST/something else if GET was a better semantic match?
So many negative comments here but nearly a decade ago now I was hugely interested in Roblox - on their platform I found an amazing creative outlet and made some lifelong friends. Their game engine is powerful while also being simple for a 12 year old to pick up and learn - I taught myself the fundamentals of programming on their platform and I doubt I would have gone down the same career path without it.
My house uses “publicly serviced space” too, in that it’s on a road. Am I obliged to let strangers shit in my bathroom?
They launched tintin A and B on SSO-A. They maneuvered to the correct orbits.
I like the idea a lot, because i have memory problems and tend to get distracted very easily, which causes me to often forget what i was doing. So a constant reminder is very helpful.
Plenty of lawyers bill in tenths of an hour - six minute increments.
I imagine that it reduces efficiency for the fastest part of the blades to pass very close to a stationary ring, as opposed to letting the turbulence tumble off the ends of the blades unimpeded.
>However in the last few years, some of the people that also share my name have started to creep up the search result, i.e. they have been covered in news articles or websites of their own. I have now started to feel guilty for hogging all the good domain names. If one of them reach out I would probably hand one of the domain names over at cost or share it somehow.

Similar for me. I have RyanMercer.net .com .co.uk and almost 18 years of blog posts there but this guy in Canada had a fashion show a couple years ago and he comes up frequently now, and another 'name brother' in Canada was a kid with cancer and articles about him come up frequently, and of course the journalist in Vermont (haha so some girl matched me on Tinder last year and goes "I used to work for a Ryan Mercer!" and it was the journalist, also for years I would occasionally get email for him, his email address has an additional character where mine does not, I once got his wired.com credentials because whoever set them up omitted the character, as well as many of his assignments from employers, I also got medical and paystub info for one in the UK for the better part of a year, one in Georgia I get hotel reservations/appointment reminders/sometimes receipts for semi-regularly too...).

I also discovered recently someone bought THEryanmercer.com.

I however feel no guilt at all about owning the domains. I owned .net first (I don't know why I got it instead of .com first) and then grabbed the .com, being an Anglophile at some point I picked up the .co.uk just because. I always try to get ryanmercer on any social media service too, sadly by the time I got to twitter someone else had and had abandoned the account early on.
Northeast passage in a couple of decades might be a big boom for Russia and China.
It depends on your bank. My transfers are generally same-day with BCGE and Neon.
The article was pretty specific about what it meant. She meant 1) someone who benefited from the solution 2) already had a hacked-together solution, and 3) had other people looking up to them in their field.
No they aren't, and no they don't.
Are you Finnish? I'm not convinced many Fins would love that characterisation.
Obligatory “I’m updating the tracker every 10 minutes “

Why would you do it to yourself?
It’s yet another distraction for any deep work.
I'm guessing the resin used for medical applications isn't the cheapo toxic stuff.

Neat use cases though, and certainly makes some sense. I guess I would've expected precision cnc to be faster/better for such cases though, unless you absolutely need the impossible to create voids
Is any of the information you input stored elsewhere except on your computer?
This is correct, I've seen the diff of the two Android versions.
Not only are paper ballots simple and effective, they can be mailed out 2 weeks ahead of time and people can vote with a laptop, at their leisure. Also, you don't have to store them for three months at a time with proof of custody, you can just scan them, or dump them once the election has been certified.

Voting machines sound great but that it's solving a problem by doing things the same with tech.
Cmd up arrow and cmd down arrow for navigating through folders and opening docs. I miss this so much when I using Windows
Kind of a silly fix.

This only addresses part of the issue. If your keyboard is repeating keys, then it is likely not registering keypresses as well.

There's no software fix for that.
Hey, why not give something for people to try. I know[1] it takes (GPU) resources and may give it a hug of death but its much better to let at least some people try it out and give this a feedback while its hot. People may lose interest later on, who knows.

1. Something I made and let people use but nobody uses: https://comic2gif.com
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Clickbaiting headline. Hotz and Levandowski are also experts and they agree with Musk.
More truthful headline: Some experts say, but then again other experts say.
You can, but it's unusual. Probably best to implement the most obvious fix, particularly because a lot of libraries (and engineers) will associate data with the query string in the context of a GET request.

Principle of least surprise and all that.
It should have been a POST.

Idempotency and implications for which operations can be cached is why.

GETs are cacheable, but if a PIN can change so can the answer. This is an authentication action, and it should have been POST.
> In the uni there was special bus lines that went around all the city to the campus.

I know this from my university city, too. It was arranged that way so that students would not overcrowd the normal bus lines.
The standard billing increment in the U.S. is tenths of an hour, i.e. six minutes. I'm sure someone, somewhere bills in ten or fifteen minute increments, but the standard is six [1].

Source: Collaborated with multiple biglaw attorneys on ideas for a more efficient time tracking method.

[1]: http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/cja/billing_increment_chart
Of all the interviews I've been to, I felt the most uncomfortable at Google. I was surprised how obvious it was that many Googlers are stuck-up, full of themselves, not just the aforementioned person.

Just because, they are Googlers.

Disclaimer: I'm not generalizing, and do have friends working for Google. Also this wasn't in the US.
Was thinking about something like this to measure happiness/fun.

You could plot a curve of an activity and do fun math with it.
I've been following these Backblaze reports for a few years now, and Seagate always seemed to do worse than other brands. HGST has consistently been at the top, rivaled only by Toshiba lately. No wonder Backblaze has replaced most of their inventory with these two brands.
Actually my workflow improved drastically after getting the boiler plate to work on the fun stuff (interactivity, animations, etc). I use this tool to get started much faster.
Have you tried this with swap space disabled? In my experience it hits a wall very suddenly.
I have seen many on Reddit and Macrumors recommend a key cover. It doesn't really do anything other than potentially damage your screen.

It ruins the feel of the keyboard. Sure, it blocks crumbs and such from getting in the keys but that's not really the issue with the keyboard.

The mechanism is just crap and fails. This doesn't do anything to prevent that.
Those cargo bikes, like Nihola aren't that cheap though.
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Please don't make an enterprise version. Fun for the individual, maybe not so fun if forced upon you by megacorp!

Cool build though!
This has been downvoted, but it appears to be highly relevant. It is a tweet thread from a crop scientist (scroll down, there are many tweets, not just the one linked).

The gist is that in the co2 studies, fertilizer etc to plants are not increased. Analogous to keeping human food constant even if a body is growing faster.

She says this makes sense for the experiments: it lets us isolate effects of components on plants. But in real life farmers add more fertilizer if plants grow faster.

This appears to directly address the linked study and warrants consideration and a reply.
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Sure, but assuming there was little traffic and there was plenty of parking available?

My point is that when comparing imperfect reality with perfect "grass on the other side", the "other side" will likely win. For example, given the unaffordability and small size/low quality of dwellings available in London, American perfectly manicured suburbs with plenty of space and big open highways may start to look somewhat appealing.

In the end, it all depends on the actual reality of it - how busy the roads are, how easy it is to find parking, how clean/nice/empty/reliable the public transport is etc. Idealizing one option over the others as can be seen in this thread seems silly. If there is a "silver bullet", it is probably in decentralizing work more such that more people can walk/cycle to work while living in a nice village, while also having clean/fast/efficient public transportation available as well as a great road system to reach the more remote locations / get to places when a car is just more convenient.
I've been a long time IBM/Hitachi/HGST fan, and agree with the "high quality" assessment. Nearly every time I've used Seagate I've had problems. There was one batch I put in a home storage server that I had no problems with, otherwise they seem to fail a lot. Over the decades I've probably had close to a thousand Ultra/Desk Star drives (personal and business).

We recently replaced all the 15K Seagate drives in our dev/stg 6 year old server with Samsung 860 EVOs, because I was replacing 1-2 a month (out of ~20 disks).

I've also had good luck with Toshiba disks, though I have a much smaller sample size.
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Will an one-off monthly fee work? Or were you thinking on a per artboard approach?
Sounds exactly like my little son.
What you've described in the second paragraph isn't protected by free speech.
HGST has indeed come a long way since their Deathstar days.
Some companies that offer remote work already have more advanced solution: take screenshot every 10 minutes, then feed it to AI to check whether the user is working or slacking :)
Yeah I agree. Vast parts of jungle land is consistently around 25-30C, surely the plants there are adapted for that?
oh wow, damn. that is pretty sad.
Yeah, absolutely no enterprise version. If my manager asks me to use this, I'll start updating my resume.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by round-tripping please?
I don’t recall having this issue on my butterfly keyboard.

Is it due to a ‘faulty/lemon’ state that these keyboards get into?

I guess it could also be related to typing style? I’m not a home row user and I don’t do any gaming.
I have a boss for that - no signup required :/
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I come here for the opposite: I've already picked my disks (HGST), and I read the Backblaze report to raise my fist and yell "Y U still use Seagate!?!"
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Those are good questions, I'll give a quick summary of the answer. Others have gone into a lot more thought.

NYC to ATL is special because the distance is short enough that people would take a high speed train over the plane - even if the train is slightly more expensive the overall travel time (including the hour advance arrival at the airport) is similar and the train gives you more space/comfort.

This is a non-stop train. Most of the cities in between would not get a stop! Not giving every tiny town along teh way greatly speeds things up and is critical to making it work. Other big cities along the way will get their own non-stop train. Little cities may have a low speed rail connection to the big city, but it cannot be on the same track.

This is not a commuter train. People who live in one city and work in the other should move. People who work in one city, but sometimes have face to face meetings in the other will take the train.

We already see the New York to Boston train having success using this model - the distance is smaller, but the trains are slower. We can use this as a model for how many people would take the train over the plane and why.

You are correct that it would cost billions. That is something that needs to be carefully considered. People have done the math and say it works out, but it is worth checking their assumptions. The construction costs are amortized over many years though, so the costs shouldn't be too bad.
No, the above is with the default swap settings. I have tried Windows with swap disabled, but on an 8GB machine, it for whatever reason ran out of memory with only about 4GB of stuff loaded, so I decided it was better to put up with the default settings.
And it's even worse because Roblox support is pure crap. Not only does it take a minimum of 3 days to reach anyone, they also have nothing in place to verify an account holder in case the account was compromised. They require the original email address and cannot verify in any other way.

We had to completely ban Roblox as well, even using OpenDNS to block it, but that just led to the use of other networks.

We're now not letting any internet access without us being right there in the same room. We're done with Roblox and its ilk. By the time our child will be allowed access again, it will be a distant memory in the context of later teen life.
You could well be right about that.
There are still plenty of customer-data-carrying things which do go over cloudflare - e.g. the internet banking, the public API, in-app webviews, etc
What would be awesome is to include an option for random time, stochastically centered around a certain length, since that is perfect for not being able to game the system. I know that a tool called "Beeminder" had something like this back in the day.

Found the blog post they did back then: http://messymatters.com/tagtime/

I used this for a while and it really was extremely helpful since it activated the "gamey" part of my brain.
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you can call it whatever you want as long as we're on the same page
I remember at Carnegie Mellon's orientation for the CompSci majors they handed out soap. Perhaps premature?
Pizza Hut sure, but KFC is similar to its American fast food incarnation. Starbucks serves as the consistently nice place to hang out, in both the USA and China, so no surprise there. Interesting aspect that in China there are many less TOGO orders, people are really paying for the nice place to hang out part.
I think you & the parent probably agree; nutrition research has traditionally treated obesity and malnourishment as opposites as the combination has been rare in history but indeed there is not a contradiction.
As some other people mentioned, Caps Lock on Mac keyboards are special, Apple added a delay or something for people hitting it accidentally. If you google around there's some fix for it, I think.

If you're not having trouble with any other key, your keyboard probably works fine. Keep that dust cover on!
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My experience was different: had my top case replaced in < 24 hours and zero issues getting them to do it.
Looking at this logically, 8chan is available all over the world.
Yet only America has these shooting happening regularly.
Could it not be 8chan but America that has the issues?

I have a feeling 8chan and Video Games and guns are not the issue here but structural social problems with America.
I'm the same - I'd pay $30/40 for a single one, but yearly cost of $99 is too much
"customer need"
How do you manage with only 512 MB RAM?
> What really bothers me the most about modern "news"

Wait until you learn about the origin of the term "yellow journalism".
Facebook is easy. Break off Instagram and WhatsApp. Those acquisitions should never have been allowed. Amazon might look like splitting retail from AWS or similar.
I was able to delete everything using their bucket browser UI. did you try that?
imo this is exactly the sort of situation where if you can't implement perfectly "clean" REST, you shouldn't try at all and just use a simplified RPC mechanism only instead.

For my company, it's all POST-only, no URL params allowed, all inputs as JSON in the body only, no resource IDs in the path - just the method & version only.
Oh yes, there indeed will be no more mass shooting if you close down %SITE_NAME%.
There are tons of non-gamified and non-surveillance-capitalist forums out there about all kinds of topics. I realize not everything and everyone on the chans is toxic, but there is quite a lot of toxic presence there.

I think the chans were cool and interesting back in the early-mid 2000s but since then they've been taken over by not-actually-ironic trolls, political propagandists and astroturfers, and other nasties. Since the forums are anonymous there's no real way to police it or even tell who you're talking to or whether they're a "real person" or a sock puppet of some kind.

I distinctly remember what to me felt like the chans' shark-jumping moment: Ebola Chan.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ebola-chan

When that appeared along with a thread full of seemingly not actually ironic comments like "maybe Ebola will de-populate Africa," I felt that the chans were done.
I'm pushing 50 and haven't washed my hair with shampoo or conditioner since I was around 20.

When I tell hairstylists, the reaction is shock/disgust followed by surprise when they can't help but do the smell test, and it doesn't smell, and then with the unprompted admission that I have "abnormally" thick and healthy hair.

I also just use unscented, clear, vegan, glycerin soap on the important bits, but I'm going to experiment with stopping that after reading this article.
Doesn't seem all that simple. Quite a lot of knowledge is needed and a lot up continuous upkeep. The whole article is also more or less about how it doesn't really work all that well anymore.
The car industry influence played a role but is always overplayed in these kinds of discussions, and ignore equally if not more important factors.

-On macro scale, the US is bigger, more spread out, with tons of land, and there's something in the American psyche that pushes Americans to expand, settle, and use all of it.

-On a micro scale, and as a consequence of the first point, Americans are accustomed to homes that are much bigger, have yards, and are more adverse to sharing a wall with a neighbor. Sure there have been exceptions like tenements in NYC, but even in those cases those residents could wait to get their own Levittown cape cod in a residential subdivision.

-Finally, a ton of this growth happened at right after cars became mainstream and affordable, but before the long terms downsides of car based societies were well understood. Therefore, a huge majority of infrastructure investments were made on what people wanted (cars and space), and not public transit.

-Now, while many of the problems of car based societies are better understood, that doesn't nullify the often ignored benefits of car based societies. Also, for public transit to work at a massive scale, people would have increasingly do two things that Americans intrinsically hate: Move closer together and pay more taxes. There may be a growing population that finds that appealing, but the silent majority in this case is an enormous and entrenched one.
The gaming world seems so foreign to me now and I used to play games several hours a day growing up. I can't understand the appeal of this game or Minecraft even if I try to imagine myself as a child again.
You're not wrong, but even model helicopters can autorotate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQ5kwqiPN4&t=135