skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> not made for *common people

If you're rich, it's never been a better time to be alive. Higher wealthy inequality than ever, financially desperate unattached workers to take advantage of. Increasing wealth inequality/concentration is simply the default nature of any capitalist system without policies in place to redistribute wealth.
TikTok & Snapchat as well. Youths are more prone to getting radicalized too, which would be useful for the Party's geopolitical goals.
In addition to hiding evidence, the likelihood of a witness in a low population area is lower. The internal narrative that you might get away with your crime (whether that is true or not) could be pretty compelling.
Curious, how much vacation do your peers at the company take each year? Rough guess is fine.

I ask because I've heard that "unlimited vacation" actually results in LESS vacation being taken because employees are afraid to be seen as the one abusing the system (even though taking 4+ week/year should be norm).

Somewhat related, I loathe the trend of grouping sick and vacation time into a single bucket (for those in the EU, in the US, if you're sick you have to burn leave, the concept of "you're sick, stay home" doesn't really exist).
It's not all doom and gloom. They are migrating to higher latitudes.
It wasn't an injury. I was at Swedish for a routine checkup and the doctor handed me a piece of paper and said "take this to the emergency desk, they can get you a scan". I had no intention of being checked into the ER and no idea I was about to be imprisoned for 8 hours.

It wasn't a big deal for me to be robbed like that, but for most working people a surprise unnecessary $5500 bill would be a real problem, so it's infuriating.
>there's a lot of value in learning Git specifically, as it's what most development teams use. Employers value proficiency in Git. If you mention your Mercurial proficiency in an interview, it's likely to be scored up as cute but irrelevant.

Given that the person I was responding to was advocating not spending time on things for the reason that employers are looking for them, and is advocating things almost no workplace uses, I find your comment strange. Perhaps you should be responding to the comment I'm responding to?

>Depends on your working situation. If your work offers no opportunity to learn new skills, and you don't want your CV to get stale, you have little choice.

You do have a choice, and you made your choice. In the US, in this era, SW professionals are near the top when it comes to freedom to change jobs and change locations. When I know several people who make half of what I do, are relatively unskilled, and have to work much longer hours than I do, who made a very clear choice in favor of physical fitness and social relations, I am not going to claim I don't have a choice.

Having said that, this is all orthogonal to my point, which was how easy it is to make (reasonable) lists of things one should focus on that are almost exclusive to one another.
I was going for a double meaning.
Literally a learned person's hand writes epic prose.
But also the person named "Learned Hand" writes epic prose.
Well said.

Another factor is that not everyone, especially women, do not want to leave themselves open to strangers to bother or even harass them. The best way to do that these days is to be busy on your phone, or to put on some ear/headphones in public. Looking busy is almost a must on public transit or else you risk looking like prey to unwanted solicitations.
this is the reality for me. it's not a chain or anything, just a cash only barber shop in the city.
Market socialism, as fare as I'm aware, is defined by social ownership of the means of production. State capitalism would definitely be more appropriate to describe China. Especially in the marxist sense of the term.

edit:
I spoke with a Chinese student once, whom preferred the term dictatorial capitalism.
I love xkcd but it's not a very good source for scientific argument. It's a pop science cartoon.

The cartoon isn't accurate and misses a lot of major temperature swings.

See this chart on second page

"Long Term Trends in Climate Variability of Caucasus Region
1Bakhram S. Nurtaev, 2Lali Nurtaev"

http://openjournals.gela.org.ge/index.php/GGS/article/viewFi...
Ah, then you should be able to provide some sources.
This is a misleading article.

If the patient truly qualified for outpatient total knee replacement (orthopedic surgeon was out of Cancun in less than 24hrs per the article), the cost of this procedure would have been around $11,677 in the US at an ambulatory surgical center. Per the article, the cost of the procedure in Cancun was..."but at Galenia, it is only $12,000". I will definitely give credit where it is due, as the inpatient cost in Mexico would be far cheaper than in the US.

Disclaimer: I am a medical student, so please keep my biases in mind. I have no skin in the game, and I totally get that prices in the US are abhorrently high. Please read the following articles to gain a better understanding:

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.22.3....
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05144

Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/hfss-nir0313...
The absorber/emitter assembly doesn't really resemble a solar cell. Demonstrated tungsten emitters have exceeded 1500K - it's not really that wild, it's what's in incandescent light bulbs. You concentrate sunlight typically.
I for one absolutely put Tencent on the same level. One is software and user espionage and the other is hardware. Same coin.
It's rather disappointing to see a self-identified Korean being (currently) downvoted in an article all about Korea.

Even if you disagree with their thesis that "the principal founding blocks of Korean consciousness are deeply feminist", it's still an interesting take. And their other point that the author is exoticising Korea is bang on I think. We have seen the same for decades with Japan and its population decline. Seems like it's Korea's turn now.

And why can't the LA Review of Books employ a Korean to write its 'Korea Blog'? Why do we always have non-anglophone countries being "explained" by anglophones?
My mom used to do a lot of work with property maps for oil and gas companies and at least in the US they were very precise. They had to be, as you don't want to build an expensive well and then later have to move it 3 feet. Or, worse, realize you didn't buy all the mineral rights and then have to pay somebody.
Acres of saltwater pools in the desert are growing an algae food revolution
OneSignal raised a $25M Series B and is hiring a Distributed Systems Architect
China and US (in that order)

https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/sc...
The only big movies I know of with talking, photorealistic animals are the Jungle Book remake, and this Lion King remake. “Caught up” is a bit of a stretch when most anthropomorphic stories are still heavily stylized.
I think this is a problem of humanity, not a problem of Americans.
Seriously, why is Huawei so important, is it because TRIAMPH says so. A communications medium across air.
They polluted even worse. The Soviet Union was directly responsible for some of the greatest ecological catastrophes in history, including the drying of the Aral Sea.
>That last clause is pretty bizarre

It makes more sense if you consider it the other way around. Theft and criminal mischief are considered violent crimes for the purposes of self defense if they happen at night.

The line between theft and burglary is blurry and subjective when you're talking about situations where someone is stealing something from someone's property at night and said theft causes them to be woken up and respond. The law is basically saying that for the purposes of self defense theft can be considered burglary by default in those cases.
Better take all my cash out of the bank then and put it under my mattress.
Gee, facebook got large
It is and Nassim Taleb has frame it as the expert aka the empty suit problem.
A kilogram of beef lasts me two meals. A kilogram of butter lasts me months.
BCH is and will be mined proportionately to its price; since its price is far lower than BTC it also has far lower security.
Sealioning is not a good way to promote your views. Something is happening to the world but you're saying it's a conspiracy. It doesn't make sense.
OK misread it and only found mediums. Sorry for being wrong, where's the high ones?
Slack actually uses Vitess to scale out its databases.
Project fi might be interesting too.
> The average number of residents age 14 - 17 for urban counties was 10,879.74 (SD = 25,923.60), far larger than the mean of 987.32 (SD = 760.86) for rural counties. Likewise, the average number of residents age 18 - 24 for urban counties (18,752.97, SD = 41,994.59) was much greater than rural counties (M = 1,625.68, SD = 1,417.78).

If there are literally 10 times fewer young people, it’s not too surprising that the rural counties had fewer crimes per capita. With that big a disparity it’s kind of shocking that the urban crime rate is only 50% higher.

I hadn’t realized that US rural counties have so few young people. It sounds like the population of those places is on the verge of collapse.

If the median age in rural counties is ~40, there are few small children, but only 2.5% of the people are 14–24, it sounds like there must be a pretty large number of 25–40 year olds though. Has there just been a sharp demographic break within the last generation with all of the young people suddenly moving away, or are large numbers of 30-somethings moving from the city to rural towns?
I never got around to finishing the Muller Report, but from what I recall and what was made public, Russia's influence campaign was largely traditional and human powered.

Here's a bitter pill for everyone. If it turns out that a large fraction of people really can have their opinion changed by bots that wouldn't even pass a Turing test, maybe its time to rethink the idea that everyone gets to vote.
It could just be a matter of test coverage and priority, rather than malice
Basically anything other than operating systems. I've been working on an optimizing compiler for spreadsheets, and an event sourcing system with a WebSocket gateway in my current work.
Air traffic control is not a great example to cite here. The USA is one of the few countries where the regulator also provides the ATC service. In comparison to Canada, the US government run air traffic control is noticeably less productive and more expensive. Some examples here:

https://jdasolutions.aero/blog/guest-author-robert-poole-faa...

Some more descriptions of the problems with US air traffic control:

>...Much of the system still depends on radar technology developed in the 1940s. A new system called NextGen has taken so long to develop and install that controllers are still operating a clunky patchwork that combines antiquated and updated equipment.

>...You could hardly find a more egregious example of serial mismanagement than the history of NextGen. Between 2004 and 2006 the FAA spent nearly $26 million just planning the system. Since 2010 it has spent nearly a billion dollars a year on attempting to implement it, frequently missing deadlines and, according to government watchdogs, exceeding budgets.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lobbyists-and-congress-just-ki...
GO2P, a simple but full configurable P2P framework
I would like to thank you for reminding everyone here that there are people that really think like this.
Sure rapid development is likely to equal lots of change, but it's far from alone in that regard.

The last decade has been dominated by rapid adoption of technologies that were under heavy development at the time, from Ruby on Rails, to Node.JS to Golang to Rust.

The simple reality of modern IT is that companies are unwilling to wait until a technology has stabalized before making use of it.

Personally I'd rather they did, but my opinion has little weight in that regard.
It may not be the microgravity that's the major help, but the hard vacuum. Deep space is the biggest, best clean room there could ever be.
No, an article about building your own video card is not political. Admittedly, if an article about building a video card went into opinions on open standards, included anti-consumerist comments, talked about legal considerations then it would be political to a varying degree. But an article about building a video card in of itself does not have to mention any of that and would therefore be non-political.

If everything is political then the word political has no meaning.
Whenever I write a comment calling out Eurocentrism on HN, and I get downvoted, I know I'm doing something right. :)
I don't know. Hangouts never seemed to work but Meets does, and I think that's newer.
One could see this as a man being tried by a jury of his peers.
https://www.amc.com/shows/no-one-saw-a-thing/full-episodes/s...
The idea is that something like the (formerly) OpenAI text generator could be used to enhance "boiler room" propaganda operations.

The idea is one person could decide on a message and hundred of articles pushing the message could be generated.

Maybe that would work. Maybe you'd see so much of this people would start to get more selective. Maybe it wouldn't matter because people believe what suits them rather than just being conditioned.
I don't think Monzo had to adopt k8s to survive. It's an infrastructure technology not something which provides a unique advantage from an app. development perspective.

Also k8s is far from only used in tech companies. the UK home office (not exactly a startup) were giving talks about their use of k8s in 2016 https://www.phpconference.co.uk/videos/2016/kubernetes-home-...
Would you defend eugenics that way? If not, why not?
I’m not saying it’s specific races or some sneaky proxy for them, but the fact that there are different races at all likly plays some role. For example, I firmly believe if we had opposites millenia with regard to race these same patterns would emerge.

Now I have lost track of the exact scope of ‘socioeconomic status’, but i don’t think that being poor/uneducated/financially insecure explains it all either. West Virginia is the epitome of low socioeconomic status, but violent crime is relatively low.

My basic thinking is that these communities do not have a healthy, trusting relationship with law enforcement. The cause for that is complex of course, but the net effect ties back to the OP. If law enforcement isn’t a reliable or trusted resource, a community will fall back to vigilante/mob justice. Without the resources of a court and prison system to remove people from a community, that justice is going to come in the form of violence. This of course creates a negative feedback loop with law enforcement, exacerbating the problem.

On the upside, this problem might actually be easier to solve.
Well, the company is nearly bankrupt and has lost a lot of people lately so odds are you might get away with it.
I only doubt that to the extent that the American subsidiaries have independent org charts. If news came out that Tencent were removing the position of Riot CEO or had mandatory libraries that Riot programmers had to use, I’d be pretty concerned about that.
> Robots will do all those things you suggest simultaneously, and

And... humanity needs to have a serious discussion about the merits and risks of all of that before we rush to deploy AI.
Lots of negative responses thus far. Happy to accommodate any insider views as to why this is not what it seems to be...
Out of curiousity, Which k8s attack vectors, do you think are particularly concerning?
When Helping Hurts
No. What's being floated in this thread is an absurd premise.

By that premise, Norway controls Microsoft and Apple because they own part of the companies via their sovereign fund. Microsoft by itself of course is worth as much as Norway's entire fund.

Snapchat is a publicly traded company, of which institutional money representing primarily US investors controls the dominant position in the company.

Reddit is minority owned by Tencent, they hold a small share of the company. If you own 5% of a company the size of Reddit, you have close to zero control over the company.

Tencent also does not own a controlling interest in Epic. Tim Sweeney all by himself is estimated to control more of Epic than Tencent does.
Run-DMC were definitely not sellouts, they sang about Adidas because they genuinely loved them and grew up wearing them. They weren't paid until Adidas took the opportunity to promote them even further. They did reject Calvin Klein ("no friend of mine, don't want nobody's name on my behind")

Additionally, Run-DMC had tons of positive, supportive, pensive and wise lyrics about education ("I go to St. John's University / and since kindergarden I acquired the knowledge / and after 12th grade I went straight to college"), economics ("All day I have to work at my peak /
because I need that dollar every day of the week"), hard work ("He gets better cause he knows he hasta / in 84 he'll be a little faster / cause only practice makes a real Jam Master"), and just being a good person ("here's another point in life you should not miss / do not be a fool who's prejudiced")

IMHO Run-DMC was easily the most inspirational and positive rap group of all time. And the best damn rappers period. RIP JMJ.
It's easy to not take enough vacation at companies w/ unlimited vacation. Anecdotally, most of my peers at companies w/ unlimited vacation take less vacation than traditionally counted vacation days.

I work at a place w/ unlimited vacation and take about 4-4.5 weeks per year. A big reason I actually get to take this much vacation is because our founders & senior leadership also take vacation. I could easily see a world where our sr leadership didn't take any time off and there was implicit pressure to not use vacation time.
Show HN: Point of Sale System for Thrift and Public Apparel (TAPA)
I had the exact opposite reaction ...
Barren is a reference to her ability to have children, and means the same as "sterile" in males.
League of Legends censors the phrase “Xi Jinping,” in English, in non-Chinese regions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/93f04k/just_found_o...
You can push over a cow. It all depends on where the center of mass is.

And you just wear a mask if you don't want to be caught.
>Between 2004 and 2006 the FAA spent nearly $26 million just planning the system

Or less than .10 USD per American. Nor does spending a billion USD a year since 2010 scream mismanagement to me given the magnitude of the public benefit if it eventually works.

By far the most important barometer of the quality of the US's air-traffic control system is how many fatal collisions there have been between aircraft being controlled by the system, and you haven't offered any data about that.
Debatable if the concept is staying. But Knightscope is almost certainly not going to be around for long. Take a look at their financials and you’ll see they’re very much lacking both a revenue stream and a reliable fundraising strategy.
Unlike say getting locked out of your account, missing out on a discount is not catastrophic. If it happens at a low enough rate, just accept it and move on. If it happens at a high enough rate stop using the service.
Absolutely, but remember that they aren’t prevented from making money or conducting legitimate business just because they answer to the party officials. It’s not worthwhile to spy on teenagers wholesale, but they might pull the logs of a senator’s kid and we would never be the wiser. Also, owning some of Western popular culture is a decent geopolitical chip. Maybe it’s not as great as a nuke, but China can use popular video games to raise the next generation of kids to be more friendly to China. Just having the idea “I like the things that come out of China” in billions of brains can increase China’s share of global GDP and power.
The definitive answer can be gleaned by setting the user agent to Chrome (or anything besides Firefox). Have you tried that?
Another word for it might be, “national socialism.” Many more parallels there than with Marxism, in my moderately informed opinion.
It probably just means the gypsies didn't want to go to the police over an assault when they were committing a robbery.
Xi calls it “socialism with Chinese characteristics”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_chara...
Keyringless GnuPG
What do you have in mind that is better than GPS?
I don't get it. What drives parents to this level of micro-management of their kids?

I'm a father, in my mid-40s, and my son just turned 25. So, I definitely parented though the first wave of helicopter parents. I just don't get it. Sending my son out on his bike to roam free was the best part of the day for all of us. And summer camp was a welcome break from the tedium of suburban life - for all of us. He got to run around outside without concern that we were watching; we got some time to catch up on our marriage or whatever else needed tending.

And any time we tried to force control his life, it created more problems than it solved. We always had more success just letting him do his thing and trusting that he'd mostly do the right thing (he stumbled a few times, but most of us have).
Should proximity to potential assailants not be taken into account?
I have this privilege also, but I find that it's kind of a double edged sword. I can take "vacations" whenever I want, but I can't completely escape work when I do. I've had teammates do things like request a push to prod over vacation, while not mentioning that the prod database had also undergone a pretty large schema change (with no documentation!), then basically beg me to fix it because performance reviews were coming up in a few days.
As much as I dislike the typical suit wearer, the industry as a whole would be much better if IT-people wouldn’t blame everything on them and just tell them you won’t do it. If you are a welder and you boss wants you to weld a gas tank that hasn’t been emptied you tell him that he has no idea what the thing he asks for means, explain why and wait till the gas tank is emptied and everything is checked.

I worked as a Camera guy in film and I am known to be very fast – yet I had directors who wanted things even faster. Bit there is a natural limit to how fast you can get something done without having worthless garbage as a result.

You can take certain risks, skip certain advisable steps, focus on the most essential thing etc, but below that there waits literally nothing.

In my experience taking a step back, breathing in, out, and then proceed to doing it properly is in most cases faster than following your boss into panic and ditching common sense.

It is your responsibility as a professional to say “No” or “Stop” in certain circumstances. And if they really want you to do it, write down the possible consequences of what they force you to do and make them sign that they take the full responsibility.

There is so much talk about IT security with people frowning upon silly behaviour, yet any other craft would bend over backwards before you could force them into unsafe behaviour. If engineers would build bridges like we in IT operate, we would have many collapses a day.
Why our team cancelled our move to microservices
Why on Earth not?
As a Chinese lived in mainland China for 20 years, gotta say all you guys are overestimating the authoritarian.
Chase Bank cancels all credit card debt for Canadian customers
Calgary man out-cheats would-be scammer, donates money to charity
And this is landing very soon in Firefox, behind a pref. https://twitter.com/svoisen/status/1159322370122768384
Evolutionary systems are very good at perverting any and all definable fitness functions - it's a red queen's race. At best, if you want systems to behave you either have to supervise them all the time or have a system which can which itself must be supervised less often. While we want human morals and ethics to be a part of our systems, humans will forever need to remain in the loop.