skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree that one approach to illegal immigration is understanding why illegal immigrants are coming to the US in the first place.

In my analysis the US "War on drugs" is a major reason. Illegal goods in high demand mean smuggling and black markets with lots of profits. These markets cause criminal cartels. The cartels corrupt government and law enforcement. Corruption and cartel activity lead to high crime areas and low economic opportunity. High crime and lack of opportunity leads to people wanting to leave.

The US also ended guest worker programs that made it easy for seasonal workers to work in the US and live in Mexico. Many people wanted to do this, so they could live in their homeland with their family, friends, and culture but also seasonally work in the US where they could earn more. By ending seasonal worker programs, the people who wanted to work in the US needed to do so illegally, and, in order to minimize the risk and hassle of repeat illegal border crossings, they made a single illegal crossing and lived and worked in the US with their families.

If I were President, I'd end the drug war and decriminalize virtually all drugs. I'd also reinstate guest worker programs and make it very easy to get temporary legal access to the country. I'd invest in technology and infrastructure at the US Mexico border so we could move people through, both ways, as fast as possible. I'd also be involved with Central and South American allies and work with them to mitigate problems that may be the root of illegal immigration.
This family hacked a terrible situation and innovated a workaround that led to a satisfactory exit.
> They totally could but for some reason no state does

No state alone can, because it would have (or at least would fear) a large influx of people coming for the free healthcare. If enough states set up their own systems and make them interoperable, it might have some legs. I hear rumblings of this from time to time,

What I meant was a federally-mandated, state-implemented system. Federal law can define a minimum level of healthcare that every state is obligated to provide. States set up and administer their own systems, any way they want - single-payer, mandatory private insurance etc. Isn't that how Canada actually does it?

It handles the "US is too big" objection to universal healthcare that everyone loves to bring up, by moving the systems to a lower level.
That is a great talk.

And from what I see, he's not some random conspiracy-theory dude.
> speeds up preparations for its hotly anticipated initial public offering in the face of tepid interest from investors.

God, tell me the editor was asleep. Tell me how it can both be “hotly anticipated” yet with “tepid interest.”

Brain hurts.
One way of helping people internalise this is to point out that 1ph is, to a first order approximation, 1kw. The same as many electric heaters.

A typical solar panel is 100w in peak conditions. It's then easy to visualise what powering something with solar panels might entail if you can make a guess at the engine HP.

Even a small ferry is likely 2000hp+.
"Did I even really know who Richard Stallman was before those emails? To be honest, not really"

Oh, dear
I always bring ham radio equipment when I hike like this. Most people don't realize mobile coverage is very limited.
A major contributor to the fact of a „no upward sloping curve“ by the way is that the average age of patients is itself an upward sloping curve. It‘s the reason we haven‘t made any apparent progress across a multitude of medical fields (like narcosis deaths and many more) on average. The picture completely changes when adjusting for age.
Windows ... generally ... aren't high-power electrical equipment.

Solar cells aren't simply inert panels of glass or silicon, but circuits of cells for which damage may affect a large portion of a panel. Solar panels as it is suffer degredation and a lifespan of ~20-25 years, in stationary mounts, due to sunlight, UV, wind, rain, hail, sand, dust, stones, and other forms of degradation.

Road debris, rocks, falling tree limbs, pine cones, other vehicles, birds, insects, and more, could impact or degrade solar panels.

A chipped windshield can be filled or replaced, at fairly modest cost. Trailing-edge rear windows might have integrated defogger wires or radio aerials, generally front glazing doesn't. Solar panels are rather more fussy.

Body nicks and dings can be effectively ignored. PV damage, not so much.
> Bringing everybody's bikes on a tram or metro train during rush hour...

Everybody's? You're awfully misrepresenting how it works in practice.

As someone who lived in Amsterdam, I've never experienced more than like five people doing that. There's a special section in each cart that can fit like two or three bikes. If they're taken, you wait for the next metro on your line. Too many bikes want to go in? Increase the bike ticket to reduce that number. Scared about rush hours? Ban them during rush hours, not all the time.

It exists as an option (as it should), but that option is far from being used by everyone.
I totally see your point. That's why I added "I am not from the US" to signal "I don't live there, I don't know the in and out of this and I need the help of someone closer to the subject to help me grok it faster".

True, I could google for it but then I am on an hunt to discern the truths and the lies and to understand why someone lies or tells the truth to whom and how it is pertinent to the original request (and there's the bubble search, of course).

The thing is, I don't know - in that case - if it's obscure or not.

Plus, our comments aren't born in a vacuum. Parent likely has additional information or an outlook on the subject that I wouldn't find (or more likely find but likely dismiss because of a lack of context) in a 15 minutes google search.

Then, on the other hand, you actually have snipers around here who are quick to derail conversations by not participating, not giving information or sharing outlook and just shooting "Sources ?" and then never coming back to the thread.

You have to trust me on that one but I assure you I don't do that.

Now, asking for sources is most of time a given when someone makes extraordinary claims meant to shut an argument (eg: "X is bad 98% of time don't talk about X" when everyone was considering X safe from the get-go).

edit: I should have asked something like "Do you have an article to recommend that would shed some lights on this matter ?". The "Do you have sources ?" is a bit harsh and inquisitive, my bad.

edit (2): On the other hand, I clicked your link, without looking at the URL, thinking "ah cool, this person is telling me that in this case a simple google search will yield pertinent results. But all I got was a "fuck you, use google".
In Tokyo bikes are not permitted unless fully wrapped (packed).

In my opinion if you need bike+bus combination its is better to use city bike instead of dragging your personal bike.
But on the other hand, it's been hard to put my finger on the tangible benefits of all that time spent on Haskell. I'm worried that I end up going deep into that rabbit hole without really benefiting from it.
Let me put it another way: from any point in space, we know you can move to any other point in space, in a finite amount of time (disregarding the accelerating expansion of the universe).

As far as we have observed, the same is not true with (the common-language definition of) time - I can't go back to the moment I was born, for example.
Curious enough; we're working on just that, a commercial compiler and ide for Go. A go compiler that can compile for .NET, native Windows, native Linux and native OSX. Haven't done much performance analysis yet, the IDE and and compiler are a first priority now, and are almost done.
If you're curious about this, betterexplained has a good article on Euler's Formula:

https://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding...

As a bonus, understanding how it is related to rotation may give you a new insight on the Fourier Transform: https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to...
Electric skateboards are even better and funnier. But you need to pay the price of the learning curve.
related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20915746
this is my perl golf version of the same series. You can probably can do something similar with js:

map$l+=(-1)$_/(1-$_2)4,1..<>;die$l
No, just the ones that run DoH.
"renting somewhere that has garages"

I still don't think solar panels will help in this situation.
It already exists.

https://solaractionalliance.org/solar-paint/

It just has very poor efficiency compared to panels, and so is not economically viable and probably won't be for some time.
This experiment blurs your screen when you keep not correct posture
The article seems really thin on the actual details of the suit. He’s being sued for defamation not critiques. It’s entirely possible that he has been making outrageous defamatory attacks during his campaign.

Parents should be allowed to be involved in their children’s curriculum, but that doesn’t mean they get a card Blanche to assault any companies involved that they don’t like.
Besides the fact that static linking has a lot of benefits, shared libraries need to be linked too: just this process is called "loading" and the linker is called "loader".

Worse, this needs to happen at every executable invokation.
No.
Honestly, not really.
It's an inevitable cliff I would be foolish to think I could avoid, but I don't know if I'm strong enough to use the momentum of destruction as propulsion towards a better trajectory.

It's sucks being tired all the time, regardless of how well I do at making other people money.

I miss waking up rested.

Sorry, had to vent.
> Yes, whereas with cross-platform, least common denominator APIs the cost is borne by end users.

I’m one of the most vehement proponents for the use of platform-specific UI toolkits here, but even I disagree with that this statement without qualification. Standards, in general, are a useful thing to have. We’ve occasionally seen (for example, in the case of application frameworks) that each platform doing their own thing has now made it so that the better experience for the user is the non-general API. But standardized interfaces (POSIX, OpenGL, JavaScript) when done right have been a boon for developers and end-users alike.
That's a myth, most of their revenues come from large companies building satellite offices but those are also the first to go in a recession.
No it’s not, the most basic responsibility of national defense is stopping invading armies.

Or maybe it’s dealing with the other nuclear powers.

Stopping people coming over the border to be residents is probably not in the top 10 of national defense priorities.

Honestly, as a matter of policy I don’t think it’s even something we are trying to do since immigration is so good for GDP, and nothing else really matters as much as growing GDP.
Useful piece of work. Our data science team has been looking for such open source solution for this problem
I am thinking of buying a skateboard instead of a scooter, to have more fun.
Yes but thats not the meat the article is comparing to is it.
Earlier. After Marcus Aurelius it was a steady downward trend.
You can also make the same argument for owning a car as well. After registration, mandatory insurance, petrol and maintenance, it's not clear that owning a car is a financially sound decision for me, personally.

I've run the numbers before and the cost of owning is pretty close to just catching an Uber every time I would otherwise drive, given I live an hour's walk from my city's center.

The only big benefit I get out of it is that I can drop everything and go on a camping / skiing trip several times a year. I certainly wouldn't buy a car now if I didn't own one, and if I could easily rent a car for outdoor trips, then I wouldn't have a reason to own one at all.
> If you have a longer range EV, then you need to plug in anyways to charge the much larger battery

Why can't you, say, have a longer range EV but only have a short commute and so not utilise that range usually?

Surely in that scenario, solar is useful on a daily basis, but when you want to go on a long distance journey you can still make use of the charging facilities and longer range.
This title really makes you think
It's the opposite for me. I recently took up working hard again and I'm finally into it as well. However, the anticipation and excitement is making it hard for me to go to bed and sleep.
Kickstarter Fires Union Organizer
Was about time !
hm. self registration, domain whitelisting and email verification are all handled by the homeserver these days - you don’t need an identity server for it. combined with the graphical installer that hopefully lands today, we should be massively improved.
"nonforcible" is 100% bullshit in this context. A university professor in his 70s with liver spots on his bald pate who is "approached" by a 17 year old girl for sex on his rich buddy's island is knowingly participating in rape, full stop.
As a pair of eyeballs that likes to read about the Navy-UFO stuff, can you point me to something more critical of it?

I just get a lot of noise and nothing really makes sense, so I just treat it as entertainint Sci-Fi.
I guess I'm doing okay but the tremendous pressure of needing to do well in career and added to that FOMO and the feeling of never knowing enough has been extremely daunting. Sometimes I'll make never ending lists of things that I would need to know in order to feel good and "better than the rest". But it does take its toll.
How Bullying May Shape Adolescent Brains
I've got a copy of one of the first print runs that a friend gave me decades ago. About 10 years ago, I use to see them on eBay for up to $3000, but the prices have dropped recently as I believe they had another print run done.
I am not saying meditation works for everyone. However, I would suggest that if you decide to give meditation another shot, try to approach it differently. You say that "it requires sitting still and doing nothing for a period of time" - I don't understand it that way, at least if we talk about mindfulness meditation. I am no expert but I would say the point is non-judgemental observation of what occurs in your mind. If what occurs in your mind is anxiety or restlessness, try to observe it without trying to control it or escape it and see what happens. You might be surprised. If you do not approach it with some preconceptions of what it "should" do and just try to accept what comes, it might make you feel better - it seems like a paradox but human psyche sometime works in surprising ways. BTW, that is also why methods like paradoxical intention (Viktor Frankl) work - when you feel anxiety attack coming, you don't try to calm yourself down. You try to be even more anxious... and surprisingly, anxiety subsides.
If there exists better evidence of our tendency to read the comments before the article, I’ve yet to see it.

Might need a headline change back to its original “Birds are ‘winged words’“, though I probably wouldn’t have read it then honestly.
I'm using Notes of iPhone and LassPass
But don't people eventually learn their lesson? They could use prepaid credit cards, for example?

I think the market will react, for example by preferring phones and providers that prevent dirty tricks for ripping of customers.
I think it is correct, as surprising as it can be.
See this famous stack overflow answer for instance: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
I love this thread, thank you for posting it. It's awesome to see this stuff talked about, even if only online. I wish more work places valued this question.

I'm fine, though struggling a bit. I'm taking a long break to scratch project itches but other life priorities have made progress slower than I was expecting. But, I love those other priorities so it's stuck between clouds and a soft place!

I understand I was very lucky to be able to take this break. There are a lot of comments in this thread I could identify with. Fingers crossed this becomes a regular Ask HN!
I think that depends on what you're building. If it's something that can work as a website, do that and perhaps throw it in a web view or whatever on your target platforms if you really need mobile exposure.

I really like React Native, but it's not the right solution for everything. I've heard Flutter is pretty nice too, so consider your options for cross platform development if it's a good fit for your app. That being said, neither is a very good for for complex apps like games.

If I have to make a separate app for both platforms, I'd do whatever I use for my personal device first so I can make sure I can easily test it in real world usage. Once the idea is proven and you have real users, expand to the other platform and step up your marketing game.
Actually, it's quite possible to determine if a deterministic program with finite memory will loop. Either it halts, or it repeats a previous state.

You can check for repeating a previous state by running two copies in lockstep, one running twice as fast as the other. If the states of the two match, you're in an infinite loop. In the 1970s, a batch system intended for beginning programmers actually did that. The college had discovered that the successful jobs ran about a second, and the ones in a loop ran out the 30 second timer. So it was a win to take a 2x speed penalty to catch simple loops.

You can make a program cycle through a very large number of states, so you don't always get a practical halting check, but in theory, and often in practice, you do repeat a state eventually.

Undecidability requires infinities.
In Netherlands nearly everyone cycles for nearly all local trips all year round regardless of the weather. Nothing beats the convenience of a bike.

I use mine for every trip longer than a 5 minute walk and less than a 45 mins bike ride. That encompasses the whole of Amsterdam and its outlying suburbs.

In bad weather, people have suitable rain gear and accept getting a bit wet. Or cycle with umbrellas. As the Dutch say, "there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing".
Google agrees to €1bn settlement with French tax authorities
> The deal includes a €500m fine to bring to an end an investigation by the National Finance Ministry and a $465m tax adjustment.
A ChocoNim could also be an interesting choice, closer to the metal and opens up potential for self compilation.
Well, you are correct in just some cases. Caesium has only one stable isotope, so beside the actual Caesium and Caesium-133 everything else has ß-decay. Unless you are burning 100% refined Caesium, there is always a chance that you are also burning its radioactive isotopes.
> Apple does not believe in static linking, their SDK doesn't have a way to work around this

Apple isn’t alone this regard; as far as I can tell Windows does this too because they don’t commit to a stable syscall interface like Linux does. That being said, you may find Apple’s official stance on statically linking your binaries amusing: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1118/_index...

In general, Apple links a lot of things to their OS releases: while their toolchains are distributed separately they’re practically tied to one or two major OSes unless you engage in hacks to make them continue working. And the languages which they exercise significant control over (namely Swift and Objective-C) are often tied to OS versions.
Luxembourg will make public transportation free for everyone in the whole country next summer. That's a great step forward.
I’ve heard ideas that prisons could be voluntary in a completely free society. First, a lot of people who have gone to prison for victimless crimes (using and/or selling drugs for instance) would no longer go to prison. Second, people who have committed violent crimes may choose to go to prison to “work off their debt” and show willingness to atone for their crimes. One could imagine that many employers, businesses and people generally would ostracize a person that would not be willing to go to prison, but on the other hand would be more willing to again accept that individual if he did go to prison.
Imagine it, someone who works (possibly at some remove) with a set of tools without necessarily engaging in a deep, intensive study of the figureheads who led in their creation. And then to engage with the written words of that figurehead as if they were on some sort of equal footing. The gall!
Git-LFS Quick Tutorial
Nice website but the wrong audience. Try posting it somewhere where people from the marketing department can see it.
A lot of work going on in this area [1].

[1] https://www.solar-estimate.org/news/solar-paint-hydrogen-qua...
Anyone else is getting a "you can't view this page because you're offline" error? I don't know why this is happening, how does it even load when I'm supposedly offline?
Turkey already bought F-35s[1], but are being told both that they can't buy anymore, and the servicing of the engines will be moved out of Turkey by 2020 if they insist on buying the S-400 from Russia[2][3].

Also, even if they didn't sell the F-35 to Turkey but still serviced the engines there that would make logical sense. The reason the US is paranoid about the S-400 is because they think radar data about the F-35 and other NATO aircraft will be fed back to Russia[4]. That concern obviously doesn't apply to a stand-alone F-35 engine sitting on the ground.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...

2. https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/06/07/turkish-suppliers...

3. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/16/trump-turkey-...

4. https://news.usni.org/2019/07/15/f-35-program-leadership-cha...
Launched a social code snippet manager
And yet I haven't seen any of that on our Fortune 500 French clients, which naturally includes banks, go figure.
Designed to distract: Stock app Robinhood nudges users to take risks
Yes, the modules that make up the API surface for Python and R respectively.
my big issue is that it ties you to somewhere, if i want to leave where i am i can just give my landlord the appropriate notice and leave, if i owned where i live i then have to find someone to buy my house before i can leave, which could take weeks or even months

the problem with your "build more homes to crash the price 80%" is its a great idea for those who dont have houses already, but for those that do it means enormous losses on their original investments, now do you think the people making the decisions on those sorts of things rent or own? something tells me they own and wouldnt be too keen on losing 80% of their investment

thats also why it does work in japan, unlike here property is not an investment its something to live/work in for as long as it lasts, as such prices only go one way, down, over the course of 20-30 years the value of most japanese houses falls to zero and they are knocked down and rebuilt
Happy to be able to help going through the day in an happier mood.
I believe so, yes. You can use creative mode, and create a ‘superflat’-type world (see https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Superflat). And in Creative mode, you can give yourself an unlimited number of pretty much anything.

But indeed, it was probably put together by hand. The creator might have sketched out or planned things in advance, but it would likely have been built by hand.

The nice thing is, the design seemed pretty modular: A column of gravel, note blocks with a tripwire, and the different launchers to recycle the gravel. Test it with one column, then duplicate. I expect the hardest part would’ve been building the ‘ROM’ containing the song.

Of course, you can also get Minecraft, download the world (link is in the video), and explore! Or you can find a third-party map editor/viewer. But that’s the best part, it’s all there to see!