skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have to take credit card by law now, though many of them will come up with various stories and excuses to not do it. Usually threatening to report them to TfL will suddenly make the machines work.
Depending on your searches, YMMV. I finally switched to DDG at work because Google refused to show me relevant results for some (admittedly obscure) searches related to lensing in F#, preferring instead to give me political opinion pieces(!) that were completely irrelevant to my query, along with various results about video games. DDG had no such problems.

This is one example of many, but it was the last straw for me. I guess techies aren't Google's core audience anymore, I get that, but it feels like we've lost a valuable tool.
They're already on a path of hatred but in different degrees. I'd say one of them, the leader, drags them down into misery. The girl is a daddy issues 101. I felt she got dragged down the most, perhaps because I resonated with her the most as being clever.
How is

> Airbus jets carry passengers and have been fly-by-wire for decades

a response to

> instability of high performance jets

?
Hungary, Czech Republic...
The Crash of Turkish Airlines flight 1951
The fall of the rainforest in 100 years or so is a certainty at this point, as well as the temperature rising over 2 degrees.

There is no way that world politicians and governments are going to move in time to prevent this, because it would take unpopular and easily attackable measures to prevent that.

If some government tries to heavily tax beef, there is going to be a riot, and those politicians would be putting a target on their backs for attacks by populists.

There is no way, it all happens slowly, much slower than the electoral cycle, the politicians in charge are usually seeking personal glory and long mandates, these measures would mean political suicide.

12 years is the time we have to prevent the rise of 2 degrees, its not hapening its as good as done.
That’s fair and I’ll admit that I read your comment as a slight-of-hand anti-union statement akin to the linked Amazon video. There’s a lot of FUD spread about organizing that masquerades as well meaning advice: the company will fight it, they’ll shut down your shop, it’s not worth doing it, etc.

I don’t disagree that companies will fight unionization in the industry but that describes the history of unions and ironically workers are better protected these days by the NLRA and the low likelihood that business will hire armed goons to attack striking workers violently than in the days where large strides were made by the labor movement in the US.
I have over 100,000 LoC in the public domain, in over 30 repos (the ones I'm highlighting). I have architected, deployed and shepherded large-scale hybrid systems that are currently in use daily by thousands of people around the world.

I have a decade of checkins and mineable Git data.

I have solved every single problem that I've ever encountered; whether technical or human (I was a manager for a long time).

I have convinced skeptical, conservative, empirical Japanese managers to fund and support development strategies, based mostly on their confidence in me, and my Integrity.

I have hundreds of pages of articles I've written in Medium and my own (multiple) sites.

I have multiple sites that I have designed, and hundreds of pages of instruction, along with entire courses and presentations.

I can trot out a long line of personal and professional references that include CEOs, VPs, lawyers, doctors, consultants, politicians and other engineers, all of whom will sing my praises to the stars -on the record.

A big reason for that, is the reason I'm not extremely well-known (outside of a certain narrow demographic). I have done most of my engineering over the last decade in Service and open-source projects that aren't about making money; but helping others.

However, when I say this, the answer I get is "IF what you say is true..."

Why the hell would anyone make a claim like that without backup? That's crazy.

OF COURSE I can back it up. My SO Story is a mile long, with links to everything.

Damn straight, there's folks better than me at pretty much any branch of what I do, but I know few that can offer the depth of knowledge across the spectrum, like I can.

AND I CAN PROVE IT.

But you'll make your decision based on a half-hour, fifty-line binary tree test that a college student would ace better than me.

I want to see lawyers do legal briefs as part of their interview. I want to see doctors do "trial surgeries." I want to see HR managers do "how would you handle this?" tests as the ONLY variable in their hiring process, while having their portfolios ignored.

After a few months of this crap, I just gave up, and started my own gig. It's working well, but slowly.

I would have been fine, taking a low salary, if the work interested me. My retirement's set. I have a couple of companies that I can use to keep my toys going.

But good luck with the "Draw Spunky" matchbook tests. I'm sure that you'll get top-shelf talent, that way.
Those inflatable hangers look like they would also do a great job as quick legitimate shelters for a campaign in a mild climate
Amazon also refuses to give feedback and then spam mails you to provide them feedback on the interview process. That tells you a lot about how they are as a company.
Bill Gates Resume (1974)
Oct Fingerprints: Resilience to Presentation Attacks
I don't know how you read in my comment that Germany is a direct democracy.
Which technology did Microsoft steal?
(copy-pasting)

Germany seems to have strong unions and a strong auto industry, but the German economy as a whole has suffered decades of wage stagnation. One outperforming industry alone doesn't negate the broader correlation between restrictive labor laws, and degraded economic performance.

Also, Germany has many advantages in manufacturing that are independent of its labor laws, like a strong work ethic and tradition of engineering, good trade schools, etc. So an argument can be made that it has a strong tendency to be a manufacturing power that is capable of counter-acting the harmful effects of bad policies.

One possible indication that unionization has had a harmful impact on German economic development is if you look at Germany's past compared to its present you see that it developed more rapidly relative to its contemporaries before embracing the social-democratic/unionized-workforce model.
So we've got Franky Zapata, and we've got Richard Browning building something comparable in the UK, and David Mayman in Australia. Is there anyone else?

Why is this all happening now? They can't all have made revolutionary breakthroughs of their own simultaneously. Is there some underlying technology that has quietly improved to the point where personal aerial dickery has become feasible?
News that is free to consume is the same as any other free product: the reader/viewer is the product.
> orders of magnitude more deadly than those originally considered by the Bill of Rights

They had small bore cannons back then, you could legally own those under the 2nd amendment. You're telling me that artillery, which can be fired at effect 1000 yards away from it's intended target, is less deadly than a semi-automatic rifle?
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Or you could pay Brasil to stop destroying it. That’s something the current president, as insidious as he might be, is correct about. Why does Brasil have to suffer alone for the world’s lungs? If the world benefits the world should pay.
>you had to take a cheap shot at vi users. Why?

You misinterpreted. I wasn't taking a cheap shot at vi users. When _I_ use vi, I press Esc multiple times. My behavior is common and this is apparently somewhat of an "in joke" among vi users.

It's a behavior similar to pressing 'C' multiple times on calculators to really really clear out the entry. Pointing out that common behavior is not "taking a cheap shot at calculator users". Out of habit, I also press C multiple times on calculators and I don't know why I do that even though my brain's logic says it's redundant.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/a7qeye/the_...

EDIT ADD: related HN thread about the ":wq" string accidentally being saved in source files because some vi users didn't realize they didn't escape text insert mode: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7798529
The word "just" almost always adds nothing of value makes a sentence less polite.
The map shows per capita figures, which immigration would probably decrease.
My first interview was at a marketing company in Boulder, CO.

They stuck me on one side of a long table with all the other developers in the other side.

They proceeded to grill me on obscure gotchas and had me white board fucking solves for shit like palindromes.

At one point one of the developers stood up and said “look, it’s so easy!” And proceeded to write out his obviously premeditated/optimized one liner on the white board.

I didn’t know enough to respond with something like “I don’t write over optimized one liners because even I won’t remember what the fuck is going on 6 months from now”.

I remember walking back to my car so ashamed and embarrassed.

Interviews are supposed to be a prediction of your fit in the culture and ability to contribute.

In the past 10 years I’ve written lots of code, but more importantly I’ve shown up as a member of my team.

In the end, those interviews are good tests. Tests of culture within the company you’re interviewing...
6 taxi apps are actually far easier and more reliable than 6 phone calls.
Err.. but then how we can select fresh grads and early 20s against old dudes legally?...
> I don’t want to snark on that idealism, but it is noteworthy that this didn’t happen.

In some places in the US. And whatever improvements happened, were only side effects. The problem with Uber is that they applied the same disregard for law to every market they entered; it was never about improving things, it was about anticompetitive behavior sustained by investor money and moving fast enough to stay inside local regulators' OODA loops.
I cannot explain it, hopefully someone from DDG actually chimes in :-) If they just use the Bing API, how can their results be better than Bing? I suppose they also use other sources.
Silicon Valley Startups: The Chase of Theoretical Monetary Value
> 9 states have magazine limits. Does it make a substantive difference? If not, then what is the rationalization to make it Federal?

Your questions point to the answer: city and state laws are far less effective when someone can bypass them by taking a short drive.

> Which other Bill of Rights freedoms require a license to practice?

Note that in this case, the freedom in question starts with “well-regulated” and that was commonly accepted as having meaning until the post-civil rights act backlash caused major reversals at groups like the NRA. Accepting some limits is literally just rolling back to the mainstream consensus position from the founding of the republic until the 1970s.
This is pointless semantics.

1) Without the billions NASA has awarded Space X prior to Falcon, there is no SpaceX.

2) Without the billions NASA awarded them during Falcon development for other projects, SpaceX would have not gotten enough money from investors, who rightfully valued the company based on their NASA contracts
This is a fine line to tread, without a doubt. It’s the same “if we don’t give them the idea, maybe some of them won’t think of it otherwise” thinking that has been a theme throughout the history of education. Similar thought process to sex education, leaving out certain anti-government parts of history, etc. (and those are just examples in the US, let alone stricter education systems).
As far as I know duckduckgo used being for images and some other stuff, but not for the main text search.
Did you see that this is a command line app (like VI, or EMACS)? Those libraries look like they're used for GUIs. Do you know if they can be used for the terminal?
W-Hy?
That's development and evolution (mutation), not a fork. A fork implies a 1:1 copy, an instance.
Some 2nd amendment supporters think there should be no limitations but in my experience that is not the majority. Most people agree with background checks, restrictions on automatic weapons, bans on felons buying guns, etc.

Many are against the return of the assault weapons ban and banning of higher capacity magazines. In general I find that many 2nd amendment supporters are fearful of an expansion of gun control laws, but they're not out there arguing there should be no gun control laws.
... and such migration will also probably cause political unrest, which would potentially destabilize Western countries a bit. (We've observed it before with the Syrian Civil War, whether you like those refugees or not, it will probably cause some stur.)
I assume these boards must be self stabilising, so the breakthrough would be the kind of miniaturised gyroscopes, accelerometers and associated processing power found in smartphones.
In addition, Lyft and Uber now integrate directly with corporate expense reporting systems which saves me time by avoiding the need to do manual data entry after a trip.
What most people fail to grep is the Bill of Rights were put in place to _limit_ the tyranny of government. You start taking those things away, restricting them, marginalizing, licensing, etc. what you'll get is tyranny in one way or another.

Do some research on Venezuela, it happened in this decade. You can go back further if you'd like.
I don't think you should get downvoted for sharing your opinion, but who do you really think would benefit from regulating firearms? There is a very good reason the constitution provisioned firearms and I think people are starting to forget.
Do you have a link to a readable copy?
It's worth mentioning that indiehackers.com is a JavaScript-only website and doesn't work with JS turned off. Google's spider can execute JS, while others do not. This is why indiehackers.com doesn't show up, not because of the search engines themselves.

I have a similar issue with a side project of mine. JS-only websites solve this with server-side rendering or static generation.
The right wing people seem to be ok with a dictatorship if it gets them what they want. Left wingers are less likely to open guns so this point is moot. Also what chance do these guns have against the army's artillery.
Cure53 Audit of Chinese ‘Police App’
(TL;DR: If you're looking for a low-overhead binary serialization format, MessagePack is great. It sits somewhere between "send JSON to a JS client" and "I have a fleet of backend services all sending data back and forth".)

MessagePack is marketed as "It's like JSON, but fast and small", but I don't view it as a JSON replacement at all. I think JSON is great for most projects, especially anything talking to a JS front end, and as soon as you move into something requiring more performance, you probably need schema/versioning guarantees that something like FlatBuffers or Cap'n Proto would give you.

I think MessagePack is a great on-disk binary format, and a pretty good network binary format if you don't have complicated application architecture (i.e., a video game client/server, a chat client, etc.) It's way, way faster than JSON which can be important for mobile, IoT, and embedded work). It's more compact than JSON if you want to avoid the overhead of gzipping/gunzipping everything. It compresses similarly as JSON+gzip if that's important to you. It's not confounded by things like canonicalization or attempts to add a schema. It's also amenable to streaming, something you... mostly can't do with JSON without going to a lot of trouble. It's also easy to implement -- which is important in some cases. Try implementing a JSON encoder/decoder!
There is a good piece out today by the sociologist Kieran Healy about shooter drills as ritual: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2019/08/03/rituals-of-...
Ultimately it's all because of ads. If we all had to pay for our news, then we'd be more cautious and reluctant about clickbait headlines. And media would not be in a race to the bottom, affecting news quality.
For investors it's just buying a lottery ticket driven by FOMO. For traders it's just another trading vehicle; the underlying enterprise is irrelevant.
Things that we can do about this:

1) Firearm control - complicated political issue, with reasonable people on both sides of the issue. And even if there were federal (executive, legislative, and judicial) political unanimity on action (there is not and can't be for decades), it remains a larger practical problem than in any country that has so far banned guns. State and city-level action has not proven very effective.

2) Political control and censorship - only a fraction of these killers seem to be radicalized, and they generally seem to be lone-wolves. It seems a course ripe for abuse.

3) Drug enforcement - it has been pointed out that almost all of these killers have addiction problems of some kind. Anti-depressants may also play a role. But drug use seems too tenuous a connection, and these substances are used by such a broad swath of the population without this effect, that it would be hard to fix this with drug enforcement alone.

4) Psychological intervention - could the right sort of intervention at the right time avert these killings? It's hard to believe not, but since we can't predict the killings, we can't do much here. But if we had better knowledge, it's possible to imagine something as simple as voluntary social media guidelines (for 24-hour news, Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), that might alleviate the problem. Or something far more heavy handed and open to abuse or misuse, including high school psychological testing and reporting, mandatory social services checkups, etc.

If I were an engineer tasked with solving this problem, I would try the full-court press solution on all of these, rather than fixating on any one component.

Solution "4" is the most interesting to me, because it seems the least explored, and the place where increased knowledge and new techniques could possibly have the greatest effect. I think that we should be especially interested in how exactly people become killers, whether there are multiple types (there certainly are), and what are the necessary stages in the process. Studies like this are especially vital and interesting to me, and we need to spend far more effort on this type of research.

The biggest danger that I can see is that political and emotional energy on the impossible solutions prevent useful action anywhere.

EDIT: More on this study. The nice data fit on their contagion equation is very interesting because it begs to be expanded. The "contagion" is mediated by the media somehow. Is it as simple as reading stories about other shootings leading to more? Or is there a media climate effect? What other types of media can lead to shootings, etc. It would be tremendously helpful to learn enough to be psychologically precise about all of this.
That is not a problem. Even discounting people too wealthy to care about cooking, a city usually has plenty of people who, on a given day, don't have time or energy to cook a meal.

Problem is, you should've paid $15 for this to even make sense, but here $5 comes from investor subsidies. Eventually the money runs out and the scheme collapses, until next company can convince next round of investors to again try selling $10 bills for $5.
If you read about shooters, there are good reasons why girls don't date them. Mostly them being impossible to even speak with for anyone. Or maybe, girls are less likely to date increasingly violent dude. Or dude who refuses to speak to them.

And it has nothing to do with dude "having no prospects". That people in this state then fit greatly into ideological bubble that feeds their delusions is something we can criticize ideological bubble for.
Is there a demo site to show us what it looks like?
There are some relevant information that must be taken in consideration.

Brazil has about 66.3% of its overall land in a “reserved/protected” state, which is protected by law.

Source: https://agroecologia.org.br/2019/01/14/censo-agropecuario-de...

This is over 631 million hectares of land destined for preservation,
Equivalent to 48 European countries COMBINED.

Amazon is not just IN BRAZIL, but spans over 9 nations.

No, I am not saying that’s a “green light” for full on deforestation nor I am saying that Brazil is doing a the most fantastic job preserving it.

What I am saying is that Brazil IS doing something to preserve the Amazon AND other forest land such as “Serra do Mar” and that a coalition of funds/resources could help improve enforcement of the law in these Protected areas. This much more “attainable” or acceptable by the current Brazilian government, which is currently very nationalist and patriotic. (President is retired Army captain, very right wing)

Brazil would not part/sell with a piece of its national sovereign territory to anyone, even if it’s for a “greater good”, just as US would not sell the Tongass forest in Alaska or the Humboldt-Toiyabe in California/Nevada “for greater
good”

Every country has it’s share in controlling carbon emissions and global warming. No country should “outsource” their share of responsibility by enforcing environmental protection standards they are not willing to withhold themselves.

TL;DR: Brazil has some protections in place, could use some help, would not sell the Amazon because it’s part/territory of Brazil and 8 other countries.

Full disclosure: Brazilian by birth, American by choice
They had warships when the 2A was written, some of which were privately owned.

They also had things like the puckle gun and the founders were aware of advancing weaponry.
> I think the simple answer to this is one that people on hn just don't like: most users like some js. Js enables better experiences (for most people) than just html and css.

You sound as if "most people", aka non-technical users, are like kids who like shiny things and cannot appreciate clean and elegant design.

You create that audience for yourself, that way.
That’s why I said few exceptions. As a whole and for most populous locations, the world doesn’t appear to be doing that. I’d love to see some evidence otherwise though.