skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The principles of universal equality expressed in the Declaration of Independence were indeed interpreted by many as delegitimizing slavery. For example, the Massachusetts constitution included similar language, and this was subsequently used to ban slavery.

34 years is a heartbeat in the overall span of history. Furthermore some states, including some of the most populous ones like Massachusetts abolished slavery less than 5 years after the founding of the United States, and many did so before 1800. Many of the authors of the Declaration of Independence intended slavery to be phased out, and Jefferson banned the importation of slaves during his presidency. It's difficult to claim that the US was founded on slavery when states started to ban slavery almost immediately after its founding and key founding figures took steps to curb slavery.

To say that slavery was a "founding principle" of the United States does not have much justification beyond the fact that slavery existed at the time of the United States' founding. By that metric, effectively all countries founded during the New World revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th century were founded on slavery.
ITT: People taking whatever their pet issue is and saying THAT must be responsible without having any data to back it up.
It's the other way around. One unit of energy to remove three units of heat.

The best starting point is the government mandated minimum SEER of 13. The Wiki article on SEER works this out. The money quote is:

A SEER of 13 is approximately equivalent to
an EER of 11, and a COP of 3.2, which means
that 3.2 units of heat are removed from
indoors per unit of energy used to run the
air conditioner.

That's the minimum. Anything higher than SEER 13 is proportionally more efficient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_energy_efficiency_rat...
Don't forget operation mockingbird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
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Most SMTP traffic is to or from a few large companies.
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Yep--I remember that, for a very long time, trying to go to Frys.com would simply redirect you Outpost.com. Even when they changed that, it went on for several more years that if you went to frys.com you would find yourself on the Outpost.com site with the logo replaced with a Fry's logo. The online selection was useless. It had little to no understanding of local store inventory. But the worst part was that the search function just fundamentally didn't work. You could type the exact model of a part into the search and it would give you random, unrelated things and not give you the part itself.
Someone has to operate the machines.
A while ago I managed to open HN on a Nokia 3310 classic.

It crashed eventually (not surprising given the minuscule amount of RAM this device has), but the front page was visible long enough for me to read some of the titles.
> would be cached

For heavy users of the site, sure. For someone who has stopped by for the first time, well, good luck with customer acquisition is all I can say.
If you're positioning it as a product, which is how many here perceived it, that reasoning doesn't hold. Not that every product has good testing, but they should...
I don't believe their deprecation claims on that. It's too deeply ingrained into the OS for them to ever remove it, and too useful and difficult to replace. Really, it just doesn't have enough users, is all. And there's more to transactions than just the file system (TxF) so I'm not even sure it's related to this either.

Also you can't implement TxF in userspace. It has to detect conflicts with other applications and roll back in the case of an unsuccessful commit (power loss etc.) before the file system is used again. Any userspace implementation would leave stuff in a corrupted state until it's re-run.
I don't know what it does (seems it was never documented? possibly so it could be removed), but for example, I do see NtEnumerateTransactionObject, which may have overlapped with its functionality? Or maybe NtQuerySystemInformation or another function does similarly.
Well as indicated in the comment if they are "using American web services to thrive in a very oppressive economy" and those services cut them off because they can't be bothered to discriminate then they are potentially harming those person's livelihoods.
Hardly rational, considering these 9 are excluded while a large percentage of the ~360k or so Chinese students studying in the US (and the ~3 million Chinese tourists that come to the US every year) seem to be able to travel in and out of the US.

It's buzzword bingo. China + CBP = web traffic. It's hot right now, so this is a good article to write if you're interested in clicks.

The implication here that a policy change has happened is (thus far) false. These 9 people were flagged for some specific, long standing reason, and it's generally not news except for the buzzwords that make it "interesting".
> Or at least have a food safety type agency looking at the products and fining bad actors to create disincentives for mislabelling and poor/unhealthy ingredients.

That seems like a tricky needle to thread, though. How do you formulate a rubric that somehow places nicotine on the "fine to put into consumer products" bucket, while placing everything else that might hurt you in the "dangerous and should be banned" bucket?
Skinny, cheap comms such as LoRa would be perfect for redundancy. If you can at least get a simple message to the batteries (charge/discharge at xkW) you still have most of your effectiveness of the system.

One nice thing though is many of the stability services (such as balancing frequency) can be detected locally and therefore centralised dispatch and comms aren't necessary. All of our household systems have high speed metering attached (sampling at 20hZ) and when they make a frequency measurement outside the normal operating range (48.8Hz - 50.2Hz) they discharge/charge respectively. This means that when there's an event we have all the systems reacting in a way that looks coordinated, but is actually just syncronised (as they all essentially have the same input -- grid frequency), so services like this are extremely resilient.
It looks like the author is involved with one side of Scottish sectarianism. Not the sort of thing HN should be platforming
Why would you use something that costs less than rent as an example of lack of poverty?
Works fine for me on an average laptop with latest stable Firefox.
Whoops, you're right, it does work either way. The response is the same with or without JS though, it just doesn't do anything with it when JS is enabled (because as a hacky way of doing "AJAX" it sets the voting url as the src value of an <img> tag that doesn't actually get displayed).
I was a physician working in NYC. I now make a full 100% more working in the rural Midwest. You can think of it like Uber's surge pricing - pull drivers in when there's a demand-supply mismatch. Except in rural America the mismatch is constant and so is the surge pricing.

A good number of the docs I work with here are actually from around these parts. They setup shop with their families, buy and build large homes on large swathes of land, and buy a propeller plane or two. Others are foreign medical graduates. These areas are almost always designated as medically underserved and that has all sorts of Visa and ultimately green card/citizenship implications. Effectively Trump's "shithole" immigrants are caring for his base.

We're unlikely to ever reach 100% urbanisation. In fact, the trend is likely to reverse to some extent at some point. Long term solutions lie in remote, largely automated care, remote triaging, widely distributed micro and mobile clinics, and efficient transportation infrastructure for when the care can't come to you.
> Adding a volatile to fix a threading bug is just a big no-no.

The fence instructions also don't make much sense. Not sure why one would not use std::atomic in a c++17 only library.
Given how long smoking was deemed to be safe, what studies have you seen that show that vaping hasn't and won't turn out to have long term health effects on par with smoking? A decade is not a very long time to run the kind of large scale longitudinal studies that are needed to accurately gauge long term health effects. Making significant claims about the long term safety of e-cigs without this data seems quite irresponsible.

Edit: lots of downvotes but still nobody actually willing to provide evidence for these ridiculous "several orders of magnitude safer" claims.
And one of the conspiracy theories is it only happened to camouflage their true potential by gifting the defective one.
This guy sounds troubled… Reminds me of Brevik. Probably doesn’t belong here.
PDF display is another pain point. We are over 10 years into the Kindel era but it's still a problem to read PDFs on all ebook readers. Why? Why are there no display guidelines so you can read them with ease or at least a way to reformat them so they can be read in an eReader?
> Kids don't learn to deal with setbacks anymore. So the real world overwhelms them.

It doesn't sound like you interact with many "kids" these days. As someone surrounded mostly by them, I can assure you none of this is true. Sad to see this upvoted so highly and especially sad to see people pointing out this is a long brought up conservative talking point with no evidence downvoted. I thought we got over this myth 10 years ago. Yet people still want to yell at Mr. Rodgers for caring about child psychology and being on the forefront of mental health in a real way...

Perhaps one should look to the external world these people are coming into for answers. Climate change, the economy, and the political climate with hateful policies against many people over the world in many countries.

Not to mention that mental health being destigmatized raises statistical reporting rates as people are simply more open about it.

But yeah, let's blame bad parenting that people first accused millennials of when no millennials are even left in the post high school college population.
Maybe I'm showing my age but it brings back memories of Legionnaires Disease.
s/there's/there was/

It's gone. That's why I'm posting about it.
Sure, of course it can be much worse, and almost all other sites are. I'm just saying that HN could do it better, because there's no need for it to send a redirect or that full-page response unless the user has JS disabled.

With JS, they could send a completely empty HTTP 200 response and it would work exactly the same (it does nothing with the response anyway). Right now HN is probably sending multiple gigabytes worth of responses to voting every day that are all just thrown away.
They are not difficult for Zed Shaw. You might not like his writing style, but disregarding context and interpreting statements literally that are quite obviously there for dramatic effect is in fact a strawman.

While I do find his writing entertaining, I wouldn't recommend it for beginners either. But not because he doesn't know how Python 3 strings work.

Python 3 was a disaster, and while his diatribe against it was questionable, the emotion behind it was not particularly misplaced.
Why do you think Wayland is vaporware? The concept, protocol, reference implementations are clear, done, the development of protocol extensions are chugging along nicely, and clients are shedding their legacy layers year-by-year (release-by-release). It was never going to be a quick and dirty hack.

Sure, you can use XWayland and just call it a day, but that doesn't really help.

The reality is that exactly due to the enormous legacy baggage of the "X ecosystem" it's not easy to just switch "to Wayland". GTK, Qt, and (again, due to the required hacks) all major apps (eg. Firefox) have to do serious work (as in finally implement something sane, now that it's an option) to work.

DBus is okay. Though bus1 might be an improvement, and having it in kernel would be a bit more efficient (zero copy, better security, etc).
I’m a recruiter. The contract is with the hiring company. Once I’ve submitted your resume to a company, with your permission, the company can’t hire you without paying me. So as long as I have your permission to put you forward for a role, and submit you to the client, you can cut me out of the process as much as you wish ... I’m still getting paid if you take the role.
... and was later appointed by Ford to investigate the possibility of the CIA assassinating Kennedy.
I regard engineering as a daemon that will magically give me anything, from a nice cuppa tea to a nuclear holocaust.

The daemon has a strong preference for nuclear holocaust.

The trick is to give it explicitly, concisely and precisely supply all the information it needs, out of the infinity of possibilities, to make a nice cuppa tea (preferably without creating a toxic waste problem).

I tend to construct my code.

I have the signatures of the functions at the boundary of the code visible, and then I create the data structures to hold the information required.

Then I wired the boundaries to the data model and uncover... holes. Gaps.

So I assume then my daemon will magically grant me all I need to plug that gap, so long as I tell it precisely what the gap is... and then test that what I have so far is "tea-like" and not emitting gamma rays.

And then turn myself into the daemon to create those parts I needed to plug the gaps.

So what is my mental model? A daemon with a preference for nuclear holocaust.
That's the genius of compartmentalization IMO. You can always simply add more compartments.
Just a side comment: this is one reason why I love virtual credit cards.

In this way, you can create rules for businesses who levy overzealous extra charges and price increases.
Elaborate? I point out the fact that:

* The principles expressed in founding documents contradict slavery.

* Some States banned slavery less than a decade after the country's founding, and within forty years the majority of the country by population had banned slavery.

* The contradiction between the founding principles and slavery ultimately led to a Civil War where the former emerged victorious.

* The United States' did not take an abnormal amount of time to ban slavery at a national level. And in fact, some States in the US were the first governments to ban slavery in the entire New World.

I'm pretty much at a loss as to how someone can come away with this comment thinking that nothing in my comment is refuting the claim that the US was founded on slavery.
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Not sure, but innerHTML seems to be taking a long time, in a call that loops over the results of getElementsByName. Given that getElementsByName doesn't return a real array, is it possible internally it's doing bookkeeping to make sure the iteration is still over the same set of nodes? Or alternatively maybe modifying innerHTML is just slow.
There is nothing to be in the loop of, as far as social networks go. This is all low-value, low-effort information we’re talking about.
The teens who are being hospitalized for this wouldn't legally be able to buy thc cartridges anyway, so they may still resort to black market goods.
https://caniuse.com/#search=fit-content

All browsers seem to have bugs with it.
I also don't understand how it's essential.
You don’t, the latter is part of candidate marketing where you send resumes to companies to tempt them to sign a contract. Scummy practice imo, as the candidates are rarely told.
You can't understand exceptional events without looking into what the other 99% or whatever are like. How many calls to 911 are actually people dying? What were the last ten calls handled by that operator like?
Yes it is significantly more robust, the downside is that you have to copy everything, including static vars and format strings. An option is to fork early on process startup and possibly share some memory.

We simply catch all signals and do a best effort attempt to flush the queue before aborting.
Try "Show All".
Honestly, with modern things like Webpack, minify/uglify, CDNs, web speed should be much better on low bandwidth sites compared to the past.
Just a note, it's not nt.dll, it's ntdll.dll.
Hydrocarbons didn't form themselves. An energy source is required to remove the oxygen from CO2. If it is possible to tap that energy source directly, then depending on energy from hydrocarbons is incredibly irresponsible because high concentrations of CO2 make the planet less habitable for most life including humans.
I'm going to guess that you weren't aware of this:

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-bos...
>a far freer market than we have today, as long as you were white

Except for the iceberg, the Titanic sailed safely. You don't know anything about the economics of US slavery - which was enormously big business and affected the entire development of the US economy.

Your theory about stealing native american land is ridiculous. There is no free market if your economy depends on piracy. You're trying to use some legalistic card trick to pretend that something is not what it is.

Married women had no property rights: therefore they could not be participants in a free market.

You have a narrative totally at variance with actual history, but it fits some ideological point you want to make. You would be better off trying to understand why your ideology is so incompatible with empirical reality.
The end.
approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, rejected by president Kennedy

in 1962, the same year the film "To Kill a Mockingbird" appeared... contrast
Tesla batteries being used as a big UPS for mobile base stations. Nice idea for remote stations!

Fun fact: from the metal mesh grill (cabinet on the right next to Tesla) looks like it's Ericsson equipment being powered.
> Remember that previous examples of people rioting over poverty has included literally beheading the rich, en-masse, in a fundamental change of the nature of national governance.

I'm in
we're so fucked.
Probably this bug - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1201401

I never saw it in High Sierra, but after upgrading to Mojave last week, I see it once in a while after resuming from sleep.
A platform isn’t destined to fail just because there’s a high rate of disintermediation.

Generally, the root cause for these sorts of businesses failing is when their customer acquisition cost exceeds their customer ltv.

Disintermediation causes customer churn which results in lower customer lifetime value. But, it’s only one of many important levers that determine the health of a platform business.
Hehe, I had never thought of this, but you're right. It's not just an iPad, either - it's the same on my Microsoft surface.

I got so used to pinch-to-zooming, for so many years, I guess I didn't even consider that usability flaw.
The WSL stuff doesn't have system calls AFAIK. All the work is either kernel mode indirection to the kernel driver, and IPC (ALPC I think on WSL1?).
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Note that 64-bit kernel-mode stuff does still have to implement a fair number of 32-bit stuff, e.g. for DeviceIoControl (see e.g. IoIs32bitProcess()).
That’s far from certain. You think US citizens can’t steal IP?

The only way to prevent it is to have nothing worth stealing.
This is still relevant I think :) What you mentioned is very similar to an edit decision list (EDL [1]), of which I only learned recently. I had a feature request [2] to support EDL as an ouptut format, and upon further investigation, it seems like the format is very similar to what you're talking about. The Wikipedia page also indicates that VLC supports xspf files, but I haven't done much research into that yet ("XML Shareable Playlist Format").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_decision_list

[2] https://github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect/issues/101
200ms on Firefox clicking show all.
> I would think they'd have responded to that line of questioning at least once.

Errm. You'd be surprised. Let's just leave it at that.
Just use this as your bookmark: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/
No, sorry. No secret organization assassinated Kennedy. These operations are documents, that are easy to write up in fantasy land. The fact that they're proposed doesn't mean false flags occur, it just means the concept is understood by people who work in the government.

Stop pretending like there's this secret organization or set of organizations that's pulling the strings or setting global agenda on any relevant level. There isn't. Everything is chaos, no one knows what the fuck is going on at any given time, and nobody is in control. Period.
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The actual number of cases isn't given, only a minimum:

> Dr. Pirzada is one of the many physicians across the country treating patients — now totaling more than 215 — with mysterious and life-threatening vaping-related illnesses this summer.

215 is a much smaller number than I would have guessed based on that headline, and it's also an oddly-specific number to just say, "More than" with. This stinks of sensationalism. Shame on you, New York Times, you're better than this.

Why does it matter? Vaping only has to be a tiny bit healthier than smoking and prevent a small percentage of people from smoking, to save "more than 215" lives. The research into the effects of vaping doesn't seem to be conclusive, so I don't know yet whether vaping is safer, or by how much. But when research does come to some concusions, I want public policy with regard to vaping to be written based on facts viewed in context, not sensationalized fearmongering.
So, in vanilla SSS, committee is fixed and the adversary is allowed to corrupt t-out-of-n nodes over the entire lifetime of the secret.

In CHURP, committees are dynamic---changes at every epoch---and the adversary is allowed to corrupt t nodes in each epoch.
Yes, as a team you should be able to make that decision. A good scrum master would want you experiment and improve if there is reason behind it.

The key thing is that the changes have to make things better. You should be able try those things and see if they improve things.

Lots of teams use kanban, and some teams mob. If you mob as a team what's the point in standups?

What's the point in sprints, if your continously improving, continously releasing, continously getting feedback and able to forecast well without them? Your better than scrum in my opinion then.

Scrum is a bit basic these days, but it's a good baseline start from. Thats the problem with a lot scrum purists. They will never get beyond a fairly basic level of performance.
If you don't use extensions, you can set apz.allow_zooming to true.

There is an open bug with extension pop-ups, so it helps if you don't use them: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1560770
This is obviously hysteria.

Perhaps, in this case there is an underlying issue that is bigger than thought.

But this shit shouldn't be rocket science.

If there is a issue with vaping it will be across the world in an even distribution, also even over time.

This also goes with contaminates!

We can't suddenly be getting spikes from contaminates in states miles apart.

At best, person Z is causing the issue, lives in state X and has a GF in state Y, this might cause a blip. But it won't be a scatter shot. If it spread on the internet, perhaps, but it's on the internet, it's findable. I'd guess the current scattershot is cause by hysteria mixed with hospitals incompetence not reporting valid info as they should.

Why are people not horrified their hospitals can't figure this out?

The open info possibly is almost enough to get a good idea, is it happening overseas? What's the underlying mechanism, or are we truly that stupid we don't understand how lungs work at all. Piece it all together.

And stop calling it lung disease, I don't care if it's technically correct, this is not what it's called in common spoken English.
There’s no scale below the inch. I see people use decimal parts of inches and others use fractions.