skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit of a mixed bag here. The editor updates are nice, but they break all of the superior community created tooling. And a custom map I made a decade or so ago now seems to crash regularly, along with having a few minor but important pieces of it broken.
People who will jump on every excuse to go "well akshually it's not pedophilia" or "well actually it's not sexual assault" on the internet are not even slightly rare.
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From an outsider's perspective, it seems to be more robust than some other cities.

It went from being an oil town to an energy town a few decades ago.

It has massive investments in the medical sector, with 60 institutions generating $25 billion annually.† That's bigger than the GDP of Iceland coming out of just one neighborhood.

NASA Mission Control is still there, and it's the headquarters of NASA's manned spaceflight programs. Though I know there was disappointment that a lot of the Mars stuff went to Alabama.

Shipping has been huge there since the early 1900's. It's the #1 port in America for foreign cargo, #2 in overall cargo, and #16 in the world.†† The Port of Houston also added a cruise ship terminal that seems busy.

I know insurance was becoming a large sector there at one time, but I haven't looked into it lately.

One thing it never really got a handle on was tourism. I think that's because it has a lot more locally-born residents than many large American cities, so it's very inward-looking. But even that is growing. The museums alone logged something like seven million visitors last year.

Overall, it seems to be doing well. To put it in perspective, New York is the only city in America with more Fortune 500 headquarters. The only thing Houston has to worry about is hurricanes.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Center

†† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Houston
I don't think this is the best place to apply Occam's razor. Why would I want to rush to a conclusion based on a couple of tweets by someone I know so little about? I don't know his personal circumstances, I don't know what he wants to accomplish or what he stands to win or lose with those tweets, I don't really know what interest the company would have from firing him and the others or to lose from a union. I know nothing of this so I don't see the need to pick a side on a conflict that has little to do with me.

If a few months from now, I read an article about what just happened now and it turns out that the company ends up being fined or something because the motivations behind firing him are actually what he claims, then it's the moment we can start being outraged, not before.
I write template heavy code. I’ve recently refactored template instantiation across many object files. It’s faster, but a lot of work. It’d be great if I didn’t have to.
There's a theory that when cats do this they're bringing you food - either to say thank you for feeding them, or because they think you're a big dumb hairless cat who hasn't worked out how to hunt.

It's impossible to know for sure without asking the cat, and the cat isn't telling.

Cats do enjoy chasing and pawing at things - or at least, they're hardwired to chase and paw at things, which is not quite the same. At the very least it seems to scratch an emotional itch for a while.

It's understood in Africa that if you're stalked by a lion, you should either face it and run towards it, or make loud noises to try to scare it away, or maybe both - because if you try to run away, its stalking instinct is triggered and you'll be on the menu.

Cats are complicated, and learning how to communicate with a cat is like learning a non-verbal language. It took us a long time to stop misinterpreting our cat, and it took our cat a while to work out how to communicate more clearly. It's still a work in progress, and surprises continue to happen.
re: Unions

If a software union only existed to deal with the following:

. Pensions
. Health insurance

I can see the point.
this is what happens when HN-style "well, ackchyually"s break free from their proper containment board
The Great Constitutional Heist
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Hardware Classics: Nintendo GameCube
We've had operational cruise missiles that could reliably destroy industrial facilities for over 30 years. There's nothing new here, the technology is just gradually becoming cheaper and more widely distributed.
It really depends on the person. Some like it, some don't.
I think the main thing it pointed out was to locally source the specimens to avoid any accidental hybrid vigor if they managed to mutate out to something viable.

Of course the outcome as is proves that males seem to make a poor long term solution since healthy ones can one to many enough to largely recover. It could theoretically weaken their genepool into nonviability if done persistently enough that the only mutant defective and inbred will survive but that would probably take a long time to converge to extinction.
Probably more like the Corporation of London

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation
I was hoping this would happen. It will probably become a EU thing now.

The idea of a privately controlled currency needs to die quickly. Never been a fan of crypto currency in general but Bitcoin, and the like, are accepted because they are not centralized. Your Bitcoin won't change in value or disappear because your country and another get in a fight.
Age of consent varies by country and the response to sex with someone below the age of consent also varies by country. It's very cultural.
Oh, interesting.

There was an episode of the U.S. version of The Office where an exec said they'd all be fired if they got "even a whiff" of unionization. And really openly to dozens of people, not in any sort of wink-wink way.

I figured this was a legit threat in the U.S.
So, Saudi Arabia kills some 80,000 civilians in Yemen, and nobody cares, then when the rebels hit a Saudi oil field, killing nobody, and just destroying a bunch of capital, and all of a sudden its terrorism and we’re going to talk about war?
As a medium-sized power, France is more sensitive to international law than the US, China or Russia. She will also not hesitate to prosecute generals for war crimes, as with the Firmin Mahé case, something unthinkable in the US or even the UK.
> For Minsksy it’s at least statutory rape

That's probably not the case. At the time, 2001, the age of consent in the US Virgin Islands was 16. Around the middle of that year the legislature said they wanted to raise it to 18, but I don't think they actually accomplished that until the passage of the Child Protection Act of 2002.

(For comparison, it varies from 16 to 18 for US states. 16 in 31 states and DC, 17 in 8 states, and 18 in 11 states).
So, Saudi Arabia kills some 80,000 civilians in Yemen, and nobody cares, then when the rebels hit a Saudi oil field, killing nobody, and just destroying a bunch of capital, and all of a sudden its terrorism and we’re going to talk about intervening on the Saudis behalf?

Glad to see we’re still very clear on what is important (the property of the ruling class, oil sheiks) and what isn’t (the lives of civilians and children).
This article is seven years old. Helly Nahmad ended up serving four months in prison. A book and a film were made about the floating card game that, while technically illegal in some places was legal in others. "Money laundering" is an abused term that has lost its meaning.
We’d have to look closer to the study, but there is a lot of research reaching the conclusion that learning languages has lasting effect on the brain, in particular in bi-lingual children ([0] for instance)

In that respect, picking back a language they once developed the “hardware” to fully master would be faster for them than people starting from scratch, even if presumably they’ve completely forgotten it.

I’d also expect children having learned language with the same structure to learn Korean faster, just as fully bi-lingual people learn tjeir third or fourth language faster in general.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6124684/
I agree with this comment.

Also, i think it shows a major difference in the way of doing bussiness and between the economic models most used in european countries vs the USA. Most notably the idea of a much more cooperative economy vs the highly competitive american model.

things like the rhineland model[1] are common across most western european countries for a reason, especially outside of the anglo-american sphere.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy#Rhine_ca...
But they will be anonymous and the level of conversation will probably not be very high.
I mean, the first step is establishing a second crime. What's the crime on which to say any profit since 2001 is related to a crime?

The company and some executives already plead guilty in 2007 to, essentially, false advertising, during the 1995-2001 period immediately after the drug was developed. During that time, "OxyContin brought in $2.8 billion in revenue for Purdue Pharma."[1] Double Jeopardy means that specific crime during that specific period is done and settled.

The company paid out $600 million in fines and the execs another ~$35 million. So that's 22% of revenue in fines in that instance. (I guess the courts didn't agree with your notion that fines should be 100+% of revenue.)

The New Yorker estimated in 2017 that OxyContin has brought in $35 billion in total revenue for Purdue[2]; if that's true, subtracting the 2.8 from earlier suggests that it produced $32 billion in revenue 2001-2017.

Did Purdue Pharma commit another crime (or the same mislabeling / false advertising kind of crime) after 2001?

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/business/11drug-web.html

[2]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-tha...
Dammit, it's like they have a different word for everything.
It has a much larger area exposed to the elements (the magnetic rails). Basically this is building a mini maglev train and attaching a wiper to it, while the traditional setup is just a motor. Up to you to decide if a train is more complicated/reliable/efficient than a motor.
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I agree with your sentiment: sometimes there is a place for speaking with moral clarity rather than utmost precision.

That said, the piece on RMS is deceitful. Manipulative headlines have been common in the media for awhile, but the hatchet jobs are becoming more brazen: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/3/20847587/le...
* Quake mod
It was in response to the comment above - of course autocracies are constantly trying to increase their power.
And 14 of the 15 people eligible out of the 28 people backing unionization at Kickstarter got a raise or promotion...

Hmm...

I know a handful of people at Kickstarter, including some of the union backers. A fair number of employees have concerns about how the folks trying to organize the union have acted. Seems they deliberately have gone to the press as leverage against the company rather than work to get employees to back their cause.

It's a 140 person company and they only have the public support of 20% of the staff.
Yes. If you recall your history classes, materials science has always been as advanced as it is today. Architects and construction teams in the Middle Ages had easy access to fiberglass insulation, polymer vapor barriers, and modern fabrics, but simply chose not to use them, possibly for aesthetic reasons.

In all seriousness, lead (much like asbestos) is a perfectly fine building material so long as you aren't trying to ingest or inhale it. Permanent waterproofing is easy with a material that melts at temperatures possible with fires even prehistoric man was capable of building (it doesn't deteriorate like tar eventually does). They only become dangerous when that's a possibility, such as when paints made from it are deteriorating, when demolition or renovation of a structure is occurring, or in the case of Notre-Dame, when the structure is on fire.

It's unlikely that the new roof on the cathedral is going to be rebuilt using these ancient techniques- but if old construction isn't broken, there's no reason to actively tear it down.
I like to think of this as basically 1-dimensional Minecraft. (Imagine an infinitely long tape, which you can write symbols to, and if two symbols next to each other can be combined, then the game automatically merges them, and allows you to put the resulting symbol in your "inventory").
It's a good question, but I think that the problem is that the overhead of switching between threads is much greater than the number of cycles wasted by waiting for the memory request. I think the fastest context switches on Linux are around 1 µs (1/1000000 of a second, or about 4,000 cycles)[1], whereas a request from RAM is around 25 ns (1/40 of a µs, or about 100 cycles)[2].

It's possible my numbers are off by a bit, but I think this means that on a standard CPU, you really need to parallelize the search more explicitly rather than letting the OS handle it for you. GPU's on the other hand do take a similar "brute force" approach to context switching, and clearly have good results on some similar problems.

[1] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/measuring-context-switchi...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-670...
Yes, because "pedophile" right now just means "horrible person", when it actually had a definition already - "person sexually attracted to prepubescent/pubescent children". And this makes it much harder to actually have a conversation about pedophilia and how to prevent pedophiles from hurting children and themselves.

So yes, this is a conversation much more worthwhile than whether Stallman is a bad person.
The money bacteria thing is a good study. Doesn't belong here.
Little Inferno is by the Tomorrow Corporation ("World of Goo"). The dev you mention seems to have done the iOS port.
This is what happens when social media companies destroy the business model of journalism and the entire profession gets replaced with outrage bloggers chasing impressions.
CEOs/industry could be boycotted induce political change. To mitigate that risk, China really should just have elected representatives as a political proxy. Then HK can have the same system we do where corporations really run the show.
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Correctness proofs of distributed systems with Isabelle
For 50W, you may as well dim the infotainment display and turn off the music for more power savings.
> Two other solutions exist. One is spinning the window, you'll see it on ships. The other is making the window hot.

There are two more solutions I can think of: hydrophobic coatings, and blasted air. I believe these both perform quiet well in less intense rain. Unfortunately both of these suffer from performance degredation from dirt/bug/bird poo etc, so not a perfect replacement to a traditional wiper.
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This is also covered (mostly) by Firefox. In enterprise configurations DOH will be disabled by default, and this should cover most of the cases above.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/09/06/whats-nex...
It has been this way since 1997; Hong Kong is the only terretory I know of governed by a CEO.
Mostly, it keeps me thinking. I see what people are doing, what they have to say about the latest news, what the latest startups are trying to accomplish. Whatever I think of it all, it invokes some critical thought on the bigger picture of this industry. And I thereby avoid getting caught up in the details of my own work and stagnating.
> Why replace a simple but essential thing that works (i.e. current wipers) with a more complicated one that it will have lots of additional ways to fail?

Do you mean like door handles?

Presumably because it looks cool.
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Electric cars are finally taking a (tiny) bite out of combustion engine sales
how old are you? i'm 41, and the media has been a pay-to-play controversy factory for as long as I have known it. the whole "good old days" of journalism spiel is a self-serving media fiction.
Idea for Search Engines
By construction, there's at least one program whose behavior is undecidable. But there's a big subset of all possible programs that always halt (and others that never do), and we can choose to only ship decidable programs and avoid the weird edge cases as unreliable.
“Hello world” from scratch on a 6502 (2019) [video]
ERs are mandated to provide emergency care to anyone regardless of insurance status. They get sweet tax deductions to do so and they get reimbursed by medicare as well. Also they have to take every insurance. There's a limit though, usually they will do enough to stabilize you out of immediate danger. So if you go to the ER with cancer and no insurance they may help you stabilize but they won't necessarily treat your cancer.
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They pay automakers to build their engine into in-car nav systems. You can now enter w3w address into many cars directly, but not competing open systems like plus codes or xaddress or maidenhead or whatever.
WP is such a dumpster fire it's unlikely that PHP skills are going to become obsolete any time soon.

From a freelance/consultancy niche it's almost ideal. Demand is high, and employers/clients are likely to have relatively simple requirements (i.e. a brochure/catalog site with a bit of a backend, not a huge industrial db that needs to run at planetary scale backed by a devops machine.)

It's not a personal interest but it seems to work well for people who can stand out from the pack, even a little.
Possible Future abuses aside, I much prefer knowing who I'm trusting Mozilla and CloudFlare with a public reputations to preserve than ISPs that make no assertions and regularly voilate privacy.
Raspbian Buster now comes with a 64-bit kernel
I would get a lawyer. Sounds like you are due a nice settlement.
Why aren't the others?
Well technically it would be the free software community who would shun him, since the open source community have already rejected his principles and leadership.
Study says renewable energy power plants will overtake gas plants by 2035
The assembly game in question (by Tomorrow Corporation) is Human Resource Machine, and there's a parallel version out recently called 7 Billion Humans.
In June the hospital decided he had aged-out of pediatrics and transferred him to adult care, where the doctors and nurses were not trained to deal with severely disabled patients—because they didn’t usually live this long and because, to be honest, they were not profitable. The doctors and nurses botched routine procedures but blamed the hole in his gut on the group-home nurses. Everyone disavowed responsibility, which did nothing to close the hole.

My mother stared down at the age spots on her hands. “I want him to die with dignity,” she said. “I want to save him from future pain. They’ll tech him out. They’ll torture him. I think I’m just quitting and he’s not, but that’s not true. He’s ready to go, too.” Her voice broke. “I just feel like I’m killing my child.”

It's a very poignant piece about a family with a severely medically disabled member as told by his twin brother.
Chris Moore was one of my kiteboarding trainers in Providenciales, TK.
While hanging out he shared quite a few stories.
A few years ago, after I learned how to stay upwind in TK I flew to Maui. I flew Cabrinha and Naish kites only to realize that both were born in Maui.
That prompted me to dig more into the Kiteboarding history, how things started, what everyone was doing around the world and how they intersected to merge into what is now kiteboarding. It was fascinating, I wish I had documented it ..

I'm glad this article came out, although I think it would be worth a deeper look and more details about how the hacking took place - the story of how a modern sport gets born. It's amazing how things that were happening across the world crossed paths and merged into the modern kiteboarding just before the Internet became a thing.

I think kiteboarding was very much a hacking exercise.
Couldn't see the article mentioning this but here's a bit of youtube history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxtZzMMYO_I
New Lithium Battery Design Eliminates Costly Cobalt and Nickel
My dog absolutely loves searching for treats. It's his favorite past time, and you can see how excited he gets.
Pretty standard "made you look!" SEO strategy, just like how Walmart and Amazon list products on their sites that are out of stock.
> But generally in banking, cash and cash-like products are equivalent.

Except it's not. Well, maybe it is "generally", but fractional reserves in particular are, by definition, central bank money, and only central bank money. So, strictly speaking, cash or central bank deposits. Not bonds, not loans, not equity. Only central bank money.

> It's different enough from banks because its matched one for one with some asset.

In other words: It is exactly like a bank. Every loan any bank ever makes is matched with some asset, if it weren't, they'd be called gifts and not loans.

> The reason banks are so highly regulated is that they participate in fractional reserve banking where they take in deposits and invest in highly risky assets.

That doesn't even make sense. How would the fact that a bank has (supposedly) lower reserve requirements mean that "regulation" is required more? The whole point of regulation and oversight is to make sure that the minimum reserve is there, not that there isn't too much reserve, and if a bank supposedly had a 100% reserve requirement (because that is what they promise their customers, say), that would , if anything, make it even more important to check that that is actually true.

The whole reason why all of that regulation and oversight exists is not because banks have promised their customers too little, but because banks over and over and over told their customers one thing, but actually did something completely different, and ususally that means something a lot more risky.

The fact that Facebook promises to do something really good is exactly zero reason to do away with mechanisms that exist to make sure that promises are held.
I didn't say it was easy or a solution to the problem. I was adding an additional point of context to a discussion in order to clarify the parent comment, which was insinuating impossibility of said action.

It's not easy, but it's not impossible. I could envision a software based solution that approaches simplicity in installation.

What I'm not arguing, is that someone should be held liable for their devices being used in a botnet.

I believe the manufacturers and retailers have the liability. But I am definitely not a lawyer.