skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me ask you a question: if you lived a miserable life, and you could break the law and live a good life for five years, would you break the law? Probably.

I know there are literal alternatives to illegal immigrant detention, but what are the alternatives that still discourage illegal immigration?

From your PDF, there is a 20% likelihood that I can evade deportation.

With 40K people crossing per month (or whatever it's at now), that and assuming that half are crossing for economic reasons (i.e., not political safety reasons), that's 4K people per month that will remain illegally _after being processed_. That's a heckuva lot.
Somewhat related -- and boy I never thought I'd say this! -- some stuff started changing in my life for the better recently and I decided to get back on Facebook and get involved again (I hadn't deleted my account or anything, I just hadn't posted or interacted in a very long time). I joined a bunch of groups that interested me and more importantly for me, I started making an effort to like and comment on posts of extended family that I rarely get to see in real life.

It's been REALLY positive. Just last night, we had a huge family thread going sharing our family pasta sauce recipes. It.... made me really happy! Now at the somewhat-annual extended family get-together, we'll have something in common to talk about.

I know it's definitely not a substitute for face-to-face interaction, but in letting go of my prejudices just a little, I've found a nice bit of additional joy in my life and hopefully made other people smile at the same time.
I use "Close tabs to the right" all the time. Almost never "other tabs" though, so I guess I'm okay with this.
Gravity might not be irrelevant, but several experiments point in that direction. https://www.popsci.com/mammal-embryos-can-develop-normally-i...

Fetal development is effectively already a low gravity environment as it’s effectively floating in water. Cells use chemical delusion to determine orientation not gravity.

PS: Low gravity ‘simulations’ have demonstrated issues, but it’s not clear they do a good job of replicating low or micro gravity.
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>simply spraying water microdroplets on a table or floor might be enough to clean it.

$5 the next homeopathic "fad" is going to be water sprayers that cure ebola.
Ah, I guess I'm used to wheeled robots where odometers are often your most accurate gauges of position.
YouTube is of course obviously safe.

Google Cloud as a whole is also safe. It's the individual given products you have to worry about disappearing. It's already a very large business. Even in third place it's going to be at least a $15-$20 billion business over time. They're not shutting that down.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cloud-arr-earnings-8-...
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There’s also

> In addition, customers of certain of our providers have been subject to litigation by third parties claiming that the service and basic HTTP functions infringe their patents. If we become subject to such claims, although we expect our provider to indemnify us with respect to at least a portion of such claims, the litigation may be time consuming, divert management’s attention, and, if our provider failed to indemnify us, adversely impact our operating results.
Just 12 months ago the head of France's space program said that the BFR and Raptor Engine were science fiction.

It's amazing that even experts in the field can't predict with any kind of accuracy what SpaceX can and will achieve.
One of the clear messages I get from looking at the past couple of thousand years of history is that I should really try and avoid getting hung up on symbols. Also looking to history, it is remarks such as this that will probably lead to that outcome.
A version of the gold standard with the dollar pegged to gold for international trade partners was reintroduced in 1945 post WWII and that's what's Nixon suspended. Just like a true gold standard, it put a check on how much dollars the government could print
The quantization of light is going to be a serious limit. The detector elements of a camera could be made pretty sensitive, but they can't detect fewer than one photon.

In NLOS (and traditional photography) the scene to be imaged is illuminated with N photons but the detector only receives M photons worth of signal back, where M<<N. So future people are going to need:

1) helmet-mounted lasers capable of sustained very high power output, to increase the signal enough to get over the quantum detection threshold

2) to slow their roll, so a lot of imaging can occur before they round the corner

or both. There are already practical limitations on laser power output in air because the air will turn into plasma along the beam path. Similarly, for NLOS you need to not burn up and destroy the surface that you're using to bounce the light around the corner.
Why not keep the minimums and use the boring company to dig parking belowground? :)
Some people pay attention:

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Thanks. Your post actually helped a great deal.
Thirteen years ago, some podcast readers coped with RSS but not Atom, but everything else coped with both just fine. Since then, I think the podcast situation improved so that everything supports Atom; but it’s very difficult to find any information at all about feeds after 2007: the problems were solved, and so no one talks about it.

Atom is technically superior to RSS, most concretely in how it specifies the format of fields like title and content, whether they’re plain text or HTML. This means that I can use things like <em> and <code> in my blog post titles and have it work (clients will either display the HTML unaltered, sanitise it, or strip tags, leaving the correct text), and have blog post titles with text like <_>::v::<_> (real example!) not get mangled horrifically.

I do not recommend that anything use RSS now.
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Note that @krrutkow is the author so this answer is fairly definitive.
I will give it a read.

Fausto-Sterling seems to be loose with data. In The Five Sexes she cites Money as the source for upwards of 4% of the population being intersexual.

Money denied the claim here (last page)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239657377_The_Five_...

Later she revised to 1.7% in this paper with some fairly loose definitions of what constitutes "frequency of deviation from the idea female or male"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.sci-hub.tw/pubmed/11534012

If you dig into the 1.7% figure, 87% of it comes from late onset CAH.
Problematic, as Late onset CAH is very similar to PCOS, which affects 5-10% of the population and was excluded. Both fit her definition of deviation from the sexual idea (hirtuisim, infertility)
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That one's completely the company's fault. If anything bricks should be much easier to balance across trucks than other collections of shipments, because the shipper knows they all weigh the same.
- macOS gets security updates for 2 previous versions usually, and Macs themselves get OS updates for 5 years (though sometimes longer)

- macOS isn't bundled with unkillable freemium games
Webpages can play media in the background on Android, but it involves locking the screen, then pressing the play button on the lock screen to confirm that you really wanted that.
Firefox and Safari generate tons of money for Google via search referrals so Chrome would have billions in revenue if it was valued the same way.
Why would organic nuts have less heavy metal toxicity than conventional?

Your link is broken btw.
I tried this for a bit on mobile, but unfortunately it just breaks too much of the internet to be feasible. YMMV, and to each their own, but I'm not willing to sacrifice that much usability when an adblocker covers most use cases.
Also - if I build a business around a 10 person startup, and they run into trouble or get acquired - there's at least some chance I could negotiate to buy/lease/rent the piece of IP and platform I'm relying on, or to reasonable expect to replicate the important bits of APIs I'm using by starting my own 10 person team.

I cannot ever expect to "negotiate with Google".
Politics has vastly more time for nuance when politicians are allowed to do their jobs instead of being Twitter celebrities constantly on the lookout for the next scandal, both defensively and offensively.

I suspect if we didn't hear from our politicians for 2 years, everyone across the country would like the outcome.
What do you want to build?
That’s great for you — I don’t feel that way for me. Stealing ideas is one thing, but stealing a complex implementation is another.
That's great if you're Mr. Spock and the rest of the world is a bunch of Vulcans who can control their brains in the most logical way. But human beings create connections in their brains, and the whole purpose of symbols is to create a connection.

If you use a symbol that has a particular widespread meaning, then people are going to think of that meaning when you use the symbol, even if they then figure out what you really mean a second or two later.

That's why companies trademark logos, and why other companies trying to associate themselves with those companies try to make their logos look similar. (Think of all the knock-off Starbucks-themed coffee shops around the world.)
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He wrote this as a rumination to an Erlang audience about the Erlang language. It wasn’t really necessary to explore every angle about other languages’ use of modules.

He does discuss information hiding in an Erlang context, so he didn’t completely ignore your concern.

I’m not sure why you felt the need to (tonally) attack him.
It was pretty clear.

> when disadvantages put on Asian individuals are explicitly laid out as systemic and on the basis of their race.

What exactly have I been disadvantaged in?
> That's absurd. It doesn't require artistic skills, all it require is trusting them to do a good job. There's plenty of ways to confirms they are good at what they do.

He currently uses contractors. What exactly are you arguing? That he is bad at using contractors, but that lack of skill is separate from his lack of skill in art?

> The thing is, he can do better art with his budget,

How? I am sure he would love to have better art at no cost, so please explain these mysterious methods.
The actual title is “Beyond Astronaut Ice Cream: How sci-fi writers like Arthur C. Clarke imagined we would feed space colonists”.
Instead of just reacting to the instantly agreeable title, out of curiousity I read the blog post and checked the blogroll the author cites as the cause for him to comment on adding RSS support.

It lists 33 blogs. However, out of 33, only 2 of them lack an RSS feed. cdevn and mikebabb. Neither has much content.
Oh this is fun. I'm going to wait just a little longer...
> A lot of people here are saying it's just a symbol, etc... But if it was a Christian cross, I bet a lot of HN readers would flinch with "I'm not supporting some fundy company!"

I... sort of agree with you. It's generally desirable to make your products acceptable to everyone you can, and so the decision to include a pentagram is probably poorly calculated.

But on the other hand, the sort of people who would put a cross symbol in the corner of a video are probably for-real fundies, while it's obviously extremely unlikely that anyone involved in the making of this video is a for-real Satanist (in the religious sense of the term). So I think there might be some justification for differential treatment on the basis of this context.
My guess is that it doesn't create the echo.
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I’m hardly one to defend finance generally, but I’m thankful to my investors that allowed me to create my startup. Finance greases wheels, and the amount of VC funding is a big reason why Silicon Valley has been so successful.
Honestly? Probably because partisan politics has wrecked my country. China as a trade manipulator has been a Republican talking point my entire lifetime. So Dems wouldn't touch it, regardless of the merits.

And before that? Well, it wasn't a big problem in 2006.
For what it’s worth, many of us are quite happy writing and using small NPM packages with clear responsibilities.

Maybe it’s self evident to you that this is a horrible thing, but it’s not to me.

But if you care to share, I would be happy to learn about the horrible things that will befall me, before they happen!
Even in industries the U.S. does have manufacturing for the cost of manufacturing is insane. I shopped around to literally every apparel production company listed on any list in the U.S. 50% of the companies said they don't have bandwidth to take any more orders, they literally didn't want the business at any price. The other 49% didn't deal in 'small orders' basically anything under 5000. In the last 1% of U.S. companies the very cheapest cost was double the price to manufacture in China - where we got very few quotes because of the language barrier.So Electric scooter or simple piece of clothing, the U.S. just loses out in every single way. This is the smallest of a long road to challenge China, point being if the U.S. companies are more comparable in price they will become more profitable, will be more likely to expand and build, and buyers will be more likely to buy U.S. Not to mention, the U.S. really needs it's own version of Alibaba so businesses can shop easier, it boggles my mind that it doesn't exist.
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I agree with the headline. If the US government wants a certain thing, within the bounds of the law, it should be willing to pay the going rate for that thing to companies willing to provide it. If there are no takers, we’ll, then the government doesn’t get that thing unless it provides it itself.

What Karp is really complaining about is how tech workers are being vocal in their disagreement with US policy, which is their right to do.
Some points:

- macos phones home a lot (and this has increased release by release)

- so does ubuntu (snap)
> I'd liken it to nuking would-be nuclear powers to prevent further problems.

So, when you wrote this, did the idea of using nuclear weapons preemptively seem like an obviously good idea, to you?
This is the big difference for me.

I can much more likely rely on a 10 person startup who're turning over, say 50mil and clearing a few mil a year of profit after all expenses. That's a stable reliable business.

At Google, that's defined as "failure" and designed straight to the Google Graveyard.

Even a 1 person startup making a few hundred thou per year is a better bet for me - I'd sooner have Pinboard as a critical dependancy for my business than any shiny new Google toy like, say, Flutter...
After having the Inbox rug swept out from underneath my feet, I don't have a lot of trust about Gmail either.
Regarding exercise during IF, does it have a negative effect on your performance if you don't eat some carbs BEFORE exercise? How do you prevent the body from eating itself up for energy during exercise?
There would be no problem at all if Google didn't have a bug when it adds events from spam emails into my calendar.
Oh yeah. Easy to that with stolen money from the brasilian tax payer, and a litle help of the corrupt goverment that they laundred money in order to help win the election.
Exactly this. It has nothing to do with the boat cost or economies of scale because once it arrives it has to still go that last mile - or last hundred miles within the U.S. the same as any package.
In 2008, this indicator didn't turn down until the recession was well underway.
Okay, that's my point.

If you have a thousand wealths and I have one wealth, that's worse than if I have a million wealths and you have a quintillion wealths.

No, not trickle down economics. It's history. The standard of living of the impoverished is dramatically higher than the rich of yore, and continually rising. And the reason is unequivocally capitalism.

Your view of the wealth gap is just not relevant because economics is not a zero sum game. The pie is not a fixed size. The promise of capitalism is that we get to grow the size of the pie. This isn't speculation or opinion. It's one of the few things we know for certain in economics.

Yes, the wealthy are getting wealthier faster than the poor are getting wealthier. But the one thing people who think that's a bad thing cannot explain is why that's a bad thing. It's not obvious that it's even possible to dramatically enrich everyone like capitalism very definitely did in the past without disproportionately enriching the few. That just may be a consequence of the only process of collective enrichment that appears to have ever existed on the planet.
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dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20815293
> Can you think of a good reason NOT to use RSS on a website? What am I missing here?

Because not enough readers use RSS to justify the time.
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Constraints are not necessary for creativity.
The Affirm loan product for peloton is 0% only (with no late fees in any circumstance).
Varroa mites in the wild are a big deal. They are very troublesome with European honeybees, esp. those kept in Langstroth hives. In the wild, bees swarm regularly, and any time they swarm and form a new hive, the new hive not only rids itself of parasites but increases the genetic diversity that is needed to deal with pest resistance. The methods of modern beekeeping work diligently to prevent this. In the 20 years since the article you first linked to was written, more careful/extensive study of wild/feral bee populations has shown how they are better adapted to deal with this pest, which is a very important development in our knowledge of the issue. They aren't a smokescreen put up by pesticide companies, but they are a greater problem as a result of modern practices that limit natural behaviors and natural evolutionary responses that reduce the impact of the mites in wild and feral populations.
The best way to buy a $2k road bike is to pay $1k and buy it from someone who thought it would be a great idea to buy a $2k road bike.

Kind of like when my dad bought an elliptical machine and my mom called it the world’s only $2,500 clothes rack.
You know it wasn’t Cunningham who said that? (Just kidding)
What would you point to as the most creative thing done with zero constraints?
I remember clicking on that a while back on thinking there weren't that many products listed there. They must have filled in a lot of killed-off-projects because now I'm struck by what a large number of projects are in the graveyard.
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I've got no trouble believing any of that, though I'll observe that the honey bees don't "belong" in North America to begin with --- they're an invasive species.
I'm always immediately skeptical/frustrated/disappointed when a publication writes a story about scientific research and can't even be bothered to provide a link to the article they're writing about. That link should be in the first sentence.
I would love it if they tried again to make a phone....
well, my current hobbies are:
flying (small aircraft), pen and paper role playing (think d&d + others), board games, photography.
If they can get close to that doubling of the energy density of Li-ion they're claiming, that'd make a _big_ difference to the electric passenger flight space. Possibly a game changing difference. Way more significant I think than doubling electric car range (or halving electric car battery weight/cost).
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Define your terms. How does one differentiate between a whim versus a deeply held belief? Is there a time limit involved? Some objective measure of sincerity?

"It's not a lie if you believe it."

- George Constanza
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I was looking through the how tos, I like that they make it easy to repair.

Do they give tutorials on how to compile AOSP on it, so you can make your own ROM? I couldn't find that nor how to unlock the bootloader
As you note, trademarks are potentially permanent. So even when they copyright of a work expires, the characters, may still be locked up under trademark protection.
Phew ... tragedy averted. I ranted earlier about them [0]. We didn't use google Hire exactly for this reason. And they were more expensive than existing software while providing few features with less polish.

And yes, they had a more aggressive sales force pushing the product, who would cold call, play the discount game, etc.

This could have been a good value add to the G-Suite. Alas.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18160658
Woah, that is a pretty compelling story to me. Makes me think about Facebooking a little.
Python tries to move away from functional idioms whenever the developers realize that the idiom can be severed from the paradigm. E.g. Python's switch from filter(list, p) to [x for x in list if p]. Guido van Rossum feels that the imperative way is easier to understand and so do I.

Functional programming languages have good ideas, like type systems or lazy evaluation. But many of these ideas are NOT INHERENT to the paradigm. Perl6 incorporates almost every functional programming idea but as an imperative language.
> forgetting the kind of person who is techie enough to use RSS feeds is probably techie enough to turn off telemetry

More like they have no choice but to ignore them because these are users who explicitly chose to be ignored.

If you want your usage patterns to affect product decisions in a product you use, then don't disable telemetry for that product. You can't have it both ways.

FWIW, there are very few companies who go to as much lengths as Mozilla to optimize for user privacy in their approach to telemetry: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/testing-privacy-preserving...
Personally, this year I started getting really into Scuba diving--a sport/hobby I hardly thought about for my entire life until I tried a single "Discover Scuba Diving" dive four months ago. Lately I've been diving deep into the hobby (hah) at home and in Thailand. I've been connecting with so many other people here in Seattle and discovered a whole community that's otherwise invisible. Most excitingly, turns out there's a whole new world down there under the waves! No need to search for alien life when it's already here on earth :D

Finding this hobby has given me pretty great happiness this year. I suffer from a fair bit of existential time anxiety, and anxiety over having too many consumptive "hobbies". Diving isn't exactly a constructive hobby, but it's opened up a new avenue of happiness that isn't strictly input/output for me.
Why? Why can't I have the browser maintain an in-memory session that is reset if the browser instance dies? When I login, the browser creates an in-memory session that is used just as today for session identification purposes. The only issue would be that if the browser crashes, or I close that window/tab, I'll have to relogin, which I'm totally fine with.

Conceptually similar to using a private/incognito mode all the time?

Every problem has a solution.
You only get the relief if you have one office/premises
Have you called the embassy in case they can provide some help?
Okay, so does anyone have any tips on how I can go about buying one of these?

I’m not seeing any obvious store links or anything.....

I might not us it as a daily driver, but I’d like to support the project, if I can. And I’d like to get some experience with a version of Android that hasn’t been loaded with crap ware.
When is Affirm going public? I want to invest in that.
I'd be interested to see whether the effect increases in a pure oxygen atmosphere, or goes away in pure nitrogen. Really, just try a bunch of different nitrogen/oxygen mixes. Maybe you can just oxygenate the shit out of bulk water and get the same effect.