skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think the near monopoly on manufacturing that the US had after the war was a huge part of the pursuing prosperity. I don't know that much about the history of the US Dollar as the world's reserve currency, but that was probably a large factor as well.

Just to clarify, I'm not trying to make the claim that the US was prosperous during that period solely because I think the war created more conscientious people. But I do think part of the reason you saw that prosperity distributed better and had things like pensions was because people back then had a better sense of what the cost of NOT distributing more fairly is, along with a better sense of the importance of camaraderie. That's an admittedly romantic view of the time, but I think there's truth to it. Widespread adoption of computers has lead to huge increases in prosperity after that period, and I think part of the reason that hasn't be shared is that the generations since then are more child like and have less of a sense of responsibility.
The general complaints I read are about the lack of specialized equipment. E.g. https://reason.com/2017/01/25/virginia-certificate-of-need-h... about the lack of neonatal care units (in southwest Virginia). It seems hard to argue that there should only be one hospital per town that offers common services such as delivery, but the only other solution is buying more units since the lack of neonatal units leads to substandard care.

And of course competition leads to unnecessary duplication, inefficiency is a well-known criticism of capitalism. But this inefficiency is like the inefficiency that comes from using Python instead of C; it is slower and uses more resources, but it actually gets things done, unlike health care where the inefficiency seems to come primarily from government regulation and lack of transparency.
public loans in the US are forgiven after 10 years (PSLF), even if you're on a payment plan.
That's insane. I'd change banks over something like that.

FWIW, USAA, Ally, Fidelity, AmEx, Chase, no charge for OFX.
The article seems to have focused on perceptions of persons who aren't concerned with taking an evidence-based look (at various types of storms: floods, cyclones (i.e. hurricanes), severe thunderstorms, windstorms. Regardless, costs are increasing.
I've listed a few sources here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20925127

"2017: Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I" > "Chapter 9: Extreme Storms" lists a number of relevant Key Findings with supporting evidence (citations) and degrees of confidence: https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/9/
Shill for China much?
I worked with sails about three years ago. It was a decent experience, but Sails 1.0 has been years underway and seems like a major rewrite of the whole thing. I don't really think a great many people use Sails anymore, and I don't think I would recommend it either.
"Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Time Series" (1980-2019) https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/time-series
I was headed downtown to my startup's office when I heard a radio newscast. I don't even know why I had my radio on as it was a pretty short drive.

I immediately went in and started checking the web. It gave me a little more information. Fifteen minutes later when my developer showed up you couldn't bring up any news site on the web.

Guy from across the hall had a TV and he invited all of us in the building to watch. We watched the TV for around an hour and at that point we all made the decision to call it a day.

Got home and think I watched TV for the next 14 hours or so. After a while there was no new information, they just kept repeating themselves on every news channel. I can remember just feeling numb. It was just so unexpected to see the US attacked.

My father said it was worse than Pearl Harbor. People at that time expected war was coming. Most American's at the time had never even heard of Pearl Harbor, much less Hawaii. This was in our living rooms and it was New York and Washington. Now I measure everything in pre-9-11 and post 9-11 because things changed that dramatically.
You already subsidize others health care, that's what insurance is.

There's also another hidden tax on every purchase you make. Companies that offer employee health care are passing that cost along to the checkout.
The more I read the comments of any discussion about e-cigarettes, the more I am convinced that there is a dedicated astroturfing campaign so any real discussion of the possible risks of e-cigarettes is derailed.

Any suggestion that e-cigarettes could be dangerous at all is instantly downvoted into oblivion or shouted down with, "you want me to smoke? It's deadly!"

Well, either a dedicated campaign or just a lot of addicts with their head firmly buried in the sand.

Is there any real chance that e-cigs could be more dangerous, or comparable to smoking? Would we even know yet? It can take decades for smokers to start developing bad symptoms, could vaping be similar?
> No dollars were transferred. If you want to convert it to actual things you can spend you have to pay an exchange at least 1% on either end.

Actually, this isn't true. That's the lowest-cost way of converting the bitcoins to actual things. But if you don't want to interact with an exchange, you have enough BTC that you can easily find someone who will just take your payment in BTC and take on the job of going through the exchange themselves.
Cash cow identified.
Am I allowed to voice my opinion that this is one of worst written articles on an abstruse concept to have yet graced the Hacker News front page?
Do they synchronize the data? xD
Normally making designs like this on the web is really tedious and a bit challenging. You'd have to do things like add a new element to the dom, rotate it 45deg, position it perfectly, draw just one border and make the background match what's outside the box to cover up the square border underneath the main element. (and that's just one corner of one element)

For example: https://i.imgur.com/yY66cdv.png and https://i.imgur.com/A2Pyeur.png on Cyberpunk 2077's website this is roughly how they do it.

I set out to fix that with augmented-ui.

All you have to do now (after including the CSS file (no js or images, etc)) is this: <button augmented-ui="bl-clip exe">...

From there, there's a bunch of options that are just CSS. (and there are several other options, not just a simple corner clip!) You can set the size of the clip, change the border on the element to anything, including images and gradients (which is nearly impossible when done the traditional way). You can give it a background inset a distance from the border, leaving a transparent gap (so it'll work over any background at all) and much more!

Here are the docs on the border: http://augmented-ui.com/docs/#--aug-border-bg (click show in codepen if you want to play with it, jsfiddle's post feature is currently down)

I made all this possible with the polygon feature of clip-path so full-support reaches over 91% of global web users. Check out the CSS behind it all here if you want to see CSS being used as a programming language: https://unpkg.com/augmented-ui/augmented.css

Aaaand this is all free to use in any project! Check it out on NPM, I'd really really love to see what you make with it: https://www.npmjs.com/package/augmented-ui

Happy to answer questions! <3 Get augmented! ;)
Another anti-trust violation that was part of Microsoft’s suit was for product tying. Basically, it’s legal to obtain a monopoly in one product via competitive means, but it’s illegal for the company to then obtain monopolies with other products by tying them to the legal monopoly.

Microsoft was guilty of this vis-a-vis Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer (and maybe some server side stuff). Google may be guilty of it as well with Google Search, Chrome, YouTube, Gmail.
Per square km, definitely. But I agree, there's also a sweet-spot in the middle for cost/subscriber.

All those pesky walls of concrete really get in the way of radiation.

Then there's the wide fresnel zones and low bandwidth of the higher-wavelength better-penetrating frequencies.
Why am I seeing this ad? AI, ML and human error in advertising
Kinesis Advantage. I bought one because my advisor had one. I got sticker shock. Spent a big chunk of my then salary on one. Spent a week getting used to it. After 10 years, it is safe to say I will use a Kinesis until I die. It's the perfect keyboard.
Jack Ma retires as Alibaba’s chairman
Certainly similar, yes. Thanks.
I have a book recommendation that completes this article: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148775

It is called “The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland” and it tells the story of how after the US air space has been shut down the wonderful people of Newfoundland managed to host 7000 people that were forced to land in there, in a town of 10000.
You think Hitlers behaviour would be adequately explained by stupidity?
"This is a good move for any institution."

MIT banned accepting donations from Epstein, so MIT disagrees with you.

"They had no part in advertising any good will gained by Epstein."

Years ago I heard a lecture by a famous British computer scientist. The UK had some of the early computers, but they weren't known to the public - Univac got the fame. As a young man he asked one of his seniors why. The response was "Those who needed to know, knew."

To make the statement "no part", we must assume that Ito never told anyone else about the contributions, even in private, to "those who needed to know."

Further, the claim isn't specifically that Ito participated in the advertising, but rather that MIT was used to "launder his image" simply by accepting the money.

The claims are backed by pointing to articles like the now-deleted Huffington Post article archived at http://archive.is/hJxT3 from 2017 where Epstein is praised for his private funding of scientists:

> “I have helped scientists for 20 years and I don’t really believe that you can say you fully understand a particular problem, unless your ideas can be tested against solid evidence,” Jeffery said. “But to tackle those problem you need resources, and if you have them the results can be marvellous. For example, in one simple and elegant equation, mathematics managed to describe the whole motion of the planets that alluded men for ages.”

"where was the due diligence of those that reported on him?"

It was obstructed through money and political contacts. These include reputation laundering methods, as described here, paying of witnesses (eg, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/12/jeffrey-epst... ) and smear campaigns against those who tried to report it (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/12/jeffrey-epst... regarding a 2015 claim).
So there's a conspiracy involving every level of the US government, the US Air Force, D.C. Air National Guard, the NTSB and possibly more, over...something that would be completely acceptable to do under the circumstances?
...and those parenthesis are annoying as hell. :)
> If it does, this ruling is catastrophic

I know it is a generally considered bad form to ask, but did you read much of the ruling? I feel like a lot of people on this thread are just going off of Animats' comment and haven't spent much time looking at the opinion.

I didn't read the whole thing, but skimmed through it and read what seemed to be the relevant parts of the argument. (Including the bit that talks about LinkedIn's robots.txt)

The ruling doesn't really support your claim of catastrophe and doesn't claim to pass any sort of final judgement.

The judge makes a specific point about not reading too much into him upholding the injunction saying:

>> These appeals generally provide “little guidance” because “of the limited scope of our review of the law” and “because the fully developed factual record may be materially different from that initially before the district court.”
As with all things, "it depends." I'm currently looking for another one or two team members. The thing we're building is hard to build so I don't really mind getting right into it.

However, I have a few other pitches that I'll dive into to get a feel for a person. For me, it's about friendship. Or rather, perhaps more. That is, I'm not looking for engineers I'm looking for believers. The type of people I look for would probably bolt too if I asked them to sign an NDA (my only experience with such things is in large corporations, which NDAs come later anyways––and [usually] not on the first date).

For me, it comes down to trust. You may be concerned about sharing your idea (if you're sharing other confidential information, then I could see how the NDA is necessary). Ideas are often the least valuable thing an early employee/candidate could take from you (or an investor for that matter).

It seems like you have already determined the problem. Maybe you should approach a consultant that is comfortable [frequently] signing NDAs; ask them if you should be asking other potential candidates to sign the same NDA.
No idea why you’re being downvoted grey on a legit question. I’ve seen at least one project where it’s unreasonably hard to introspect rails code even using IDE tooling.
I think OP is getting at the nature of the relationship is kinda imbalanced. Consider basically most of their website is off limits: https://www.google.com/robots.txt
I agree that having admin baked in is very convenient for simple CRUD, which saves the time to query the database. For every other criticism of Django compared to Rails I agree with whoever posted them. Still, to address another debated technology, Django is far better than any JavaScript backend I saw.
A lot of the Web wasn't geared for high load. Information was developing so rapidly that online was really the only effective place to go for information (such as it was -- there was rampant speculation). Many sites rapidly slimmed down their services and offered lightweight versions. A few lighter-weight sites remained up, notably, at the time, Slashdot.

NPR refers to 9/11 as the event which made clear that the network needed to have full capabilities to broadcast from a secondary location, and began planning for its west-coast hub (in Los Angeles) shortly after. Its flagship news programmes are now co-anchored from both Washington and Los Angeles.
So weird to see such a detailed article on the critical moments after the attack which basically doesn't even mention the President.
Not if they own the tumbler. In fact, it would make a lot of sense if this was some tumbler or online gambling site owner.
Using Hypur for 'Sin Products'
Sweet, I scraped a bit of data and have been holding off on putting it on to my web app.

I think I'll transform the data a bit before putting it up there.
A noble and brave people fighting for their rights and freedom against a brutal and evil regime. It may seem like it but this is history in the making.

What still is shocking is how many Chinese people I know who are nice and rational people, but once the word Taiwan or HK is spoken, become angry tape recorders spewing hate.
This is proof nationalistic religious-style patriotic education in China is dangerous to both Chinese and the world.
I would much rather have fewer features which work well. For example, until recently there was a restriction that jobs could only run in parallel if they were defined in the same "stage", and no two stages could have running jobs at the same time. This means that a job whose dependencies were met could not necessarily be started because it belonged to a later stage (and jobs cannot depend on other jobs from its own stage, more on that later).

GitLab then introduced another way of specifying dependencies using the keyword "needs" ("dependencies" was already taken by the half-baked implementation). This allows jobs from multiple stages to run concurrently, as you would expect. However, you are still required to shoehorn your jobs into stages, even though they should be completely deprecated by now. Worse, the restriction that jobs cannot depend on other jobs from the same stage still remains. On top of that, the visualization of a pipeline pretends that the new way of specifying dependencies does not exist, so all the arrows between the jobs are meaningless.

I would much rather have had a proper implementation of the simple, more general approach, than having to deal with the legacy of a hacky and half-baked solution.
"Wouldn't it make sense to just say Major or Minor Third instead of introducing this rather severe ambiguity?"

Yes. Absolutely. Or just say 31%, rather than a half-assed analogy that is more misunderstood than anything. Even "1/3rd of an octave" would be better.

But I was addressing your question of "which".
As an interviewer and hiring manager, a candidate not asking questions indicates a lack of interest in the company/role. I appreciate when a candidate interviews me about the role, the team and the company. It demonstrates a desire to take advantage of an opportunity to gather more information about whether this is the right opportunity for them.
The "war on terror" has served as justification for:

- permanent mass surveillance of global communications

- total governmental control and visibility into fiat money financial transactions

- endless U.S. participation in or support for military campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Syria, and the concomitant trillions spent on military hardware and services

- increasingly lawless privacy intrusions at U.S. border crossings

- a huge cottage industry of corrupt dealings as detailed in the WikiLeaks dumps

It's not even necessary to believe any conspiracy theories to recognize that the events of 9/11 lent direct support to a multitude of imperialist and corporatist agendas.
You may have a valid point but your rant-y syntax is what’s earning you the downvotes :/
If you are not depressed (big if), and you're just going through the motions of life, you CAN make yourself happier just by reading the right material (e.g., Feeling Good, The Four Agreements) or yes, even affirmations. The happiness will last for about a day, in my experience. Then you can revisit the material.
Overloaded, stressed, and/or damaged systems often act unpredictably.

What precipitated the mis-routing is an interesting question. Perhaps multiple devices switching in/out of a particular cell or node faster than the routing system could accommodate?
Famous Viking Warrior Was a Woman, DNA Reveals
Stupidity does not adequately explain the Holocaust...
Man spends £30k fighting £100 speeding fine
This seems to be dodging the broader point that Google is simply too big and can exert too much power over which companies live and die by virtue of their massively diversified influence. I see this investigation ending with fines, which won't solve the root problem.
I can kind of predict that Spring and Hibernate (Java) will be around the next 5 years.

The JS ecosystem is just immature.
Under BC Law, it would strike me as a FIPPA violation, but it's a bit more complicated.
The article is a book exerpt, essentially a chapter of a larger work.

The chapter addressing the President, then in Florida, has been posted elsewhere in this thread, it's here:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/were-the-onl...
Minimum bid on AdWords/Google Ads is a clear sign of monopolistic practices. Even if there are no competitors for the phrase or if it's very niche, you will have to pay the minimum Google tells you, in order to even appear in SERP.
Infrastructure as code is a much older practice, not something that Kubernetes enables. Kubernetes can be criticised for being too complex for most things that benefit from IaC.
You might find "Maxwell on the Electromagnetic Field: A Guided Study" (https://www.amazon.com/Maxwell-Electromagnetic-Field-Masterw...) an easier introduction to Maxwell's theories and hence a good place to start with.
Why doesn't cp have a progress bar like wget?
End of an era.
There's nothing hypocritical about it. Googlebot respects robots.txt configured on pages it scrapes. Google in turn expects that their own robots.txt will be respected. What's the issue?

https://www.google.com/robots.txt
Coercion Resistant Design: Protecting your software company from state actors
Second order thinking here, it was a great narrative for supporting the next AI-winter
One subtlety. The regulation uses the term "in the Union" rather than "EU citizens" to describe the data subjects it covers.
Another data point: MBP 15, mid-2017 running chrome, loads in less than 1.3s.

edit: chrome 76.0.3809.132
I'd argue that BM shifts the norm, but then tends to stop emerging past a point. In emergencies, the situation just keeps evolving. Well past normal or safe limits.
This is a fun list! Let me add two of my personal favorites:

"Literally", which means "figuratively".

"I could care less", which literally means "I couldn't care less".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/01/i-could-care-less...

Edit: I feel like a party pooper saying this, but I see a few comments where people may be taking this phrasebook seriously, perhaps because it's been Published on the Internet by MIT?

It's not a serious phrasebook! It's just an MIT alumnus having some fun with us all.

In fact the author is clearly not a native American English speaker. Here are a few "tells"...

"Upon arrival it is therefore often to their surprise how many seemingly simple phrases actually turn out to mean something completely different in the US American variant of the English language."

"You might want to consider to do X."

"You might want to consider to postpone your trip until after the deadline."

"It is highly recommended that you turn in your application in time to increase your odds at being considered."

These are close, but not quite what anyone would write who grew up speaking American English. And that's fine! My goodness, the author's English is 1000 times better than my... whatever their native language is. And I'm glad they shared this fun list with us. :-)

BTW if you enjoy this phrasebook, I heartily recommend English as She is Spoke:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=english+as+she+is+spoke
I don’t think that is a from western stereotype, more like a from Chinese one, so calling it “Chinese man” might not translate very well, bumpkin thug would be more appropriate.
Whoa cool these are the notes I put together. I'm glad someone remembered :)
Keybase.md
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I got myself a connected electric toothbrush and body balance.

After I found out that tracking the weight and my tooth brushing habits only works if I share the data with a central server, I now basically have a regular electric toothbrush and body balance.
Not necessarily; I think the type of bad times experienced and how the majority of people need to act in order to weather them play a big part in how it affects their character.

Although obviously war is horrible and hugely detrimental on net, I think the one silver lining is that you are put into life threatening situations in which you NEED to trust the people around you. Political backstabbing, greed, brown nosing, refusal to take responsibility, laziness... these will get you and/or the people around you killed. I believe people that go through that tend to put more emphasis on creating healthy, sustainable, working organizations than their own self aggrandizement.

When people come on hard times during recessions, I don't think the dynamics are such that it makes strong people, necessarily, or that it offsets selfish impulses in the same way something deeply scaring and emotionally impactful like war can. But I do think people that come out from recessions figure out what lead to the bad times, and generally come out stronger in that they're less likely to repeat the same mistakes.