skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original Hong Kong police have their own children and family members among the demonstrators and have a difficult time being physically tough, particularly on the young HK demonstrators. Some as young as 10 have been arrested.

It's therefore purported that many of the HK Police are actually mainland military police who have been brought in to get tough. The uniformed don't wear identifying badges. Some of them will dress as demonstrators and mingle with them. The demonstrators can identify these infiltrators by their non-HK accent and by the fact that they don't know the Hong Kong public transit system. Their purpose is to identify demonstration leaders and disrupt plans. The CPP military police apparently don't care about spraying un-involved families with pepper spray or firing projectiles into the heads of demonstrators. You likely heard about one nurse, who was helping wounded demonstrators, losing an eye to a projectile fired by police at point-blank range. The infiltrators are also purported to be the instigators of fires and other of the more violent demonstrator actions in order to justify police acting and using clubs, rubber bullets and pepper spray, as well as arrest anyone they can grab.

This is all another shame. The pre-CCP Hong Kong police were among those of the highest integrity globally. Now, they are comprised of unscrupulous foreign agents whose objective is submission and suppression, and who are now, at least in this episode, ridiculed into retreat.
A few days ago a Palestinian Harvard student was denied entry into the US after the CBP searched her phone for social media content and found anti-American posts made by her friends that she had no control over.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/8/27/incoming-freshm...
From what I know, fonts are created by optical judgment, fiddling with kerning until it looks right and a tremendous amount of trial and error - this is because our vision system's complexity is compounded by "short-cuts" (optical illusions) that brain takes when processing dorsal and ventral pathways of the brain. In my view, this font is jarring to the eyes and ugly - I am not sure if this has to do with the programmatic nature (variable fonts are sort of programmatic, but with aforementioned manual adjustments) or if the font design itself. If you're a typographer, please share your thoughts and critique.

A font such as this can be categorized under "Display font" but it would not pass the mustard for any serious candidate for text.
Considering that fridges today have built-in 24” touchscreen displays running Android and cavity cameras so you can see inside your fridge when you’re at the supermarket - the useful life of a fridge is probably on the order of 1-2 years before Google obsoletes the firmware and Samsung shuts-down the video feed relay service.
Completely ignorant on this, but ... how does this differ from a decent home-grade gas range? Does it not depend heavily on the cooking vessel?
s/inhalers/nebulizers/

See, e.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12425745

It's also listed as approved as an inactive ingredient by the FDA, including for inhalation:

PROPYLENE GLYCOL | RESPIRATORY (INHALATION) | LIQUID | 57556 | 6DC9Q167V3 | 10%w/w
PROPYLENE GLYCOL | RESPIRATORY (INHALATION) | SOLUTION | 57556 | 6DC9Q167V3 | 25%w/w

Source: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/iig/index.cfm?ev..., page 39.
The only thing I know of approved for deliberate human inhalation are things like inhaler and nebulizer based drugs. Those are usually carried in a fluorcarbon (HFA-134a aka 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethylene in Ventolin inhaler, which just evaporates) or saline in the case of nebulizers.

Theatrical fog causes "irritation of mucous membranes such as the eyes and the respiratory tract associated with extended peak exposure to theatrical fog. " Another study "also found long-term exposure to smoke and fog was associated with both short-term and long-term respiratory problems such as chest tightness and wheezing".

Cigarettes are terrible, but vaping ain't vitamins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_machine#Adverse_health_eff...
Could be Plantain by CastleType or Vulpa by Schizotype Fonts
You can always use a terminal based browser like lynx, it’s also a way for me to often bypass some stupidly implemented paywalls. The elegance and speed of those browsers cannot be overstated in the world of unwanted garbage (embedded videos, 9 billion auto-refreshed ads, etc) on sites like CNN or most news sites.
Many people are not acutely aware of this. Otherwise they wouldn't be majoring in international studies.
Best Buy’s usually have a selection of headphones beyond Beats. Beats is a minority from the 5+ I’ve been to recently.
I always accidentally log out when I try to click on my username in iOS.
Good point, I wonder why Amazon doesn't point this out whenever people give them a hard time about how the fulfillment center jobs suck. They could present themselves as paragons of egalitarianism.
It’s pointless to work long hours so why do it?
I've messed with these in stores and just been blown away at what a useless feature this is. Ah, yes, an appliance running Android Cupcake what a fabulous idea.

It's clear that some items have hit peak functionality and manufacturers are just bolting on nonsense to keep up the facade of "luxury."

But I'm sorry, running Spotify on my fridge is hokey, gauche and entirely unnecessary.
Fun fact: you can use Hacker News on an Apple Watch, and it’s not even that horrible.

- Sent from my Apple Watch
> ...both depression and anxiety are extremely treatable.

When did that happen? As someone who has undergone treatment for many years and read a lot of the literature, the long-term success rates for treatment of depression are mediocre, at best.
linux isn't a monoculture at all

assuming you know about Windows and OS X and are just talking about servers, there's still the BSDs and Solaris and AIX. a good deal of software is written to just assume a reasonably POSIX-compliant environment, precisely because linux is not the only server OS.

unix-like operating systems are something of a monoculture and that IS very bad, because OS design is basically stuck in 1973

>Is git bad?

yes and anyone who says otherwise is numb to the pain
Have you considered coupling a chunk of dense material to the compressor?

Something like a block of scrap iron hanging off the side of the compressor housing affixed with a tightly fitted robust hose clamp.

I've seen numerous differential housings on automobiles over the years with such sinks hanging off their mounts to eliminate some harmonics or other harshness that would otherwise enter the cabin.
Answer in a way to turn things in your advantage.

"tell me about a time when you failed"

Failed to meet deadline (which you never do) that one time where you take initiative to rewrite spagetti legacy code from scratch. Later on everyone thanked you for that. But yes - first time it looked like a failure.

"what's the worst thing your previous manager would say about you"

Manager was pedantic asshole and insisted on doing thing his way. You did it your way and succeeded making manager unhappy because you took a risk and challenged the stigma jeopardizing his role.
Why "Messing with contract law", especially when it concerns a corporation to an individual, so terrible?

A company has piles of money and piles of lawyers. What do you, an individual have? You likely have a few thousand in the bank, more money locked away for old age, and can google a list of lawyers.

Point being; there is a significant power imbalance between an individual and a corporation. So absolutely yes, we as a society should be legally preventing and stopping many contracts, ToS, and other legal and quazi-legal instruments for abuses of all sorts.

That should apply from shitty Valley upstarts all the way to banking and old businesses.
Should we hold them in temporary confinement until we can complete their hearing, or just let them promice to return and plead their case?
> Sorry if this is a naive question, but is that really true? What's the evidence for believing that, much less treating it as fact?

The economic collapse of the Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact counties, Venezuela, North Korea.

By allowing a free market invasion in their Communist utopia, the Chinese Communist Party long ago abandoned their core ideology in favor of “pragmatic authoritarianism.” They get to stay in power, while reaping economic benefits impossible in a truly communist economy.
I think there are a few problems here:

1. Durability is hidden, cost and features are apparent. I can see on the box what features the OEM claims. I can see on the box what it costs. I cannot see the common failure modes on the box.

2. People want appliances that are durable and repairable, but often end up replacing them before end of life of the product, or destroy them some other way (cell phones).

3. Survive the warranty. Unless there is a resale market for the product, the only durability requirement is to survive the warranty.

4. Efficiency (on some metric). The linked video discounts the increased efficiency of the newer fixture, but that's not how product engineering works. If the product has a goal to be more efficient or lighter, then everyone has that goal. Lighter may mean less durable or less effective overall, but more portable or useful.
I have found that many people online are not necessarily forthcoming with their age. Hacker News might have more people of that demographic than you think it does.
I don't like Elon because his company branded existing technology in a misleading way and pushed it past it's safe limits and people died.

I don't like Elon because he went on Twitter to blame them for dying when he's also the one who likes to coyly imply your hands are only on the wheel for government reasons.

I don't like Elon because of the foolish 420 tweet and his subsequent interactions with the SEC.

I don't like Elon because of his alarmist nonsense in relation to AGI when the real threat, institutionalization of societal bias in ML is literally at our door step, because talking about Skynet makes you more popular

I don't like Elon because his company tricked people with their CPO program which silently switched to a used car program and started sensing people cars with undocumented body damage and tor nail clippings under the seats.

I don't like Elon because of the hubris he showed insulting companies Toyota and their literally game changing assembly processes then not showing anything for all that talk

I don't like Elon because he's building companies on the backs of engineers who are overworked and mistreated and expected to drink the kool aid while acting like building overpriced luxury cars is saving the earth.

Do I need to go on or is at least one these a good enough reason to not be carted off as a crazy conspiracy theorist who unreasonably dislikes him?
yes thats because this article isnt about vaping nicotine/vg/pg, its about vaping thc/mineral oil (or any oil) which causes inflammation/damage to the lungs+death
I was a heavy buyer at Frys until Amazon got really good. Especially these days, when a NAS drive fails, I can order one and it comes in one day. I once bought a video card and found out it was bad on Saturday. That evening I ordered an exchange on Amazon and on Sunday morning it came before I even got out of bed.

Frankly Amazon is so much better than Frys in so many ways.
Some may call that a feature. For the rest, https://www.hnreplies.com/ is quite useful.
How prepared are mainland PLA forces for urban insurgency tactics? Lethal force is likely the spark that ignites the powder keg.
Is it possible to even find out the rated noise level before purchase? I feel like every 'fridge and air conditioner should print this up front with the capacity and voltage. Noise level is the main thing I look for in an appliance with a compressor.
The key to deadening sound is density changes

Alternating heavy, light, dense, sparse materials cause reflections backwards which helps the sound get converted into heat.

Unfortunately small gaps lead to large amounts of sound getting out.
Show HN: DBML – simple DSL language to document database schemas
A fridge is overhead to most people. It's not worth more than the bare minimum in terms of resource allocation (money, time, attention). It's like a sink or toilet or some other home fixture. As long as it works most people will keep using it unless the cost of replacement is so low that you can do it on little more than a whim. The only time people replace them is when they break or if you're high class you replace it when you renovate the room because keeping it would "look dated" or some such.
Heed the caution about CTEs being optimization fences. I had a case just this past week, where one of our engineers needed help with a query that used a LEFT JOIN against a CTE which generated text-search vectors for some subset of rows, in some large table. The query was taking 9-10 minutes, cache-warmed.

Used that way — an outer join against a CTE — the planner was forced to generate a plan that produced a row for every candidate row in the table being used as input for the text-search, whether or not it would be needed, visiting nearly all of its pages.

Just by moving the CTE inline (that is: "LEFT JOIN ( #{ subquery } ) AS blah"), the query completed in 17ms.

This way, the planner could apply conditions from the rest of the query to the subplan from which text-search vector rows were being produced, such that it only pages containing rows it already knew it would care about would even be retrieved.

The rest of this article is pretty on-point, too.

Source: This stuff is my day job.

EDIT: As a counter-point, because they are incredibly useful, I've also had countless cases where rewriting a query to use CTEs was the several orders of magnitude win. This also wasn't the only possible fix; the qualifying conditions in the CTE could have been improved, eliminating the extra work where it would have occurred.

Like all things computers, the real answer is, "it depends..."
Sales people put their barcode on items after they help you to get the commission for selling them.
Was covered in TFA:

> Earlier this week, the Harvard Crimson reported a Palestinian student was detained by Customs and Border Protection and sent home to Lebanon. In that instance, the student claims customs officials found posts from people that included political views that opposed the U.S. on his friends' list.
1. A free market requires that the government exercise a monopoly on force, using force. Only the government should be allowed to use force and it should be minimized. International politics will always be a state of nature but treaties and free trade agreements can be good.

2. If the sound money is very expensive to move, people will issue bank notes. I think you are right about that. However, if there are two equally good monies, except that one can be used directly instead of using an intermediary layer (like bank notes), the one that can be used directly will win out in the market and the other one will disappear from use. Because it's less risky when there is no intermediary layer. Then again, there may be use cases when you want reversibility, and then people would use an intermediary (like PayPal). Going through an intermediary some of the time doesn't really create a different currency. For instance, Tethers (which are nominally worth 1 US dollar each) aren't really a different currency (although that's not an ideal example since Tether is so shady; perhaps Gemini Dollars is better).

3. Imagine you have Greatcoin and Shitcoin and those are the two currencies. Merchants take Shitcoin but they immediately convert it to Greatcoin (which holds its value better, or perhaps is deflationary). Consumers don't want Shitcoin, so they also immediately convert it to Greatcoin. Everybody wants Greatcoin in their bank account/digital wallet; nobody wants Shitcoin. I think you can see where this is going. Next time I go to the merchant and try to pay with Shitcoin he's going to say "Come on man, I don't want that shit. Just keep all your money in Greatcoin, which you want to do anyway, and don't convert to Shitcoin before you pay me, and I won't have to convert your Shitcoin to Greatcoin." Then Shitcoin goes away.
Appliances don't magically disappear when they're replaced. When your "built to last five+ decades" fridge hits 15 and you want a newer model, you can sell or give it to someone else, who'll pull another 15 years out of it. There's plenty of people who don't care or can't afford to care about their appliances being in mint condition. As long as the fridge still cools, they'll take it. And after something finally dies, that fridge could still be taken apart and used to repair other models.

As for the increasing efficiency angle, I'm not buying it. I have a strong feeling that all efficiency gains are eaten by manufacturing. E.g. imagine you replace a fridge every 5 years, and each one is 2x as efficient as the previous one. I can't imagine how this uses less energy than running the first (least efficient) fridge for 15 years, once you account for the energy costs of designing, making and shipping the two newer fridges.
A Brief History of Scaling LinkedIn (2015)
One of more of my credit cards (issued by a major bank) provides this. However, I decided to use it one day and was greeted by the message...wait for it...

"This content requires the Adobe Flash Player."

I just checked and it still does, so I have yet to try it out.
Trust me, it's not just developing countries having an issue. Even on a super fast internet connection these modern web crApps will make your phone chug while they load 100 different ad and analytics libraries.
Got it. Thanks for the extra reference. Definitely seems like it’s a moot point and something else is at play, giving more credence to the OPs speculation.
Is that across the board or for certain types of visas?
What a striking map that is. It makes me curious how big the Sahara will get, and how long it will be until it begins shrinking again.
Buying things at all is a choice.
A Summarization System for Scientific Documents
They wouldn’t have to. They could lay siege. It’s a port. It’s mountainous. It doesn’t produce much of its own food. They could blockade it.

That said, if they bring in the PLA, it’s over. They are conscripts. One hope is the generals would insubordinate.
another interesting thing I found recently is that lot of water dispensers don't dispense chilled water, just room temperature water. They don't mention that.
I usually am not given the identity of the company from a recruiter, but 95% of the time, I can find who it is with just a minute of searching, based on the language in the job description. It's pointless to take the id off when you don't rewrite the rest - and nobody has time for that.
I've been using your app for awhile now! It's quite good. OpenZones is a fantastic idea.
Nice! I hadn't actually looked at the code before writing my comment. That does seem relatively trivial, so I stand corrected. I didn't realize the clientside code was discarding the response; I sorta naively assumed it was doing a DOM replacement or something equally straightforward.

What a pleasantly tiny script file. More site code should be this easy to read.
They are in an international airport. People in an international airport are already in voluntary temporary confinement. If people want to plead their case, provide them a hotel and fly them back if they abandon it. It really shouldn't be hard unless the amount of people you are refusing who already possess visas is extremely high.
Argh, that link is cringeworthy. Amiga wasn't killed by piracy, but rather committed suicide thanks to atrocious commercial and stategic moves by Commodore's various owners. The DOS market had the same amount of piracy and none of the hardware manufacturers had any problem surviving.
Re 2. and 3., resale market is enabled by durability. If a product still has plenty of life in front of it but I want to get rid of it anyway (e.g. to buy a newer one), there's a good chance someone will be willing to buy it off me, whether to use it or to strip it for parts. Manufacturers don't make money off secondary sales of used products anyway, so the pressure to make products barely survive the warranty is always there.
OP here. Sharing a bit of history on DBML.

Originated from dbdiagram.io, a simple tool that we built to help you draw ER diagram by using writing code [1]. We shared that project on HN about a year back. Since then it has been growing organically and reach over 80k users.

When we launched, what our users like most about that tool is the ability to write simple DSL language and get the chart visualized. Then over time, we started to see our users using that DSL language to document their internal database structure (without the necessary need to visualize it). They were using it as a database documentation/definition language.

Realized this is something we can add more value to the community, DBML was then born as a simple language to help you design, document and communicate your database structure with other developers. DBML is also open-sourced and would welcome contributions [2].

Basically with DBML you can:
- Have a simple db.dbml file to document your database schemas, with proper context and descriptions
- Your dbml file becomes the central source of truth of your database definition
- Using simple CLI command to generate SQL creation file from DBML

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18066881

[2] http://github.com/holistics/dbml
Great comment! I recall all those quirks in my fond old memories of Fry's! The multiple trees killed by quote sheets; the lack of seeing anyone patron the Cafe, and the classical music (which I actually enjoyed but clashed with my store's theme). It's funny you mention their antique POS system (Novell NetWare based IIRC? overhearing from a sales associate once) since it seems like Micro Center and Costco both use similar text-based POS systems to this day.

On a visit back to my native Southern California last Winter, I ended trying to rekindle old memories by taking a trip with my dad and neighbor to our local Fry's. Sadly, we all had a collective shock experiencing the lack of cars in the parking lot, sales associates on the floor, and the large empty spaces on once full shelves. The place seemed like a shell of its former self. After not being able to find whatever I was looking for at the time, I later made the trek down to Micro Center, which I recall not only had my item in stock, had shelves full of product, a store full of employees, and a parking lot full of cars. It definitely fit my bill of being able to drive to a brick and mortar store, to quickly pickup a part and getting straight to using it, especially when one cannot afford to wait days for shipped product.