skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do understand that DB is a collective scheme and DC its not just you.

Your DB pension is funded by those that came before you and those coming after.
It's still less then a 1/3 as many employees as Walmart

Looks like they had similar issues?

https://www.plbsh.com/jury-awards-walmart-employees-6-millio...
> Yeah you can build here, but have you completed all your environment impact studies? And posted notice of tree removal with requisite public comment period?

This stuff really matters in the entire region because nearly everything is a landslide hazard.
Experiment Driven Design
It burns slowly enough that it doesn't conflagrate like unprotected hardwood or plywood might, so there's much more time to evacuate. If the fire isn't put out quick enough, however, the building may lose its structural integrity
What about Noise?
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/gomezgregg76; my proof: https://keybase.io/gomezgregg76/sigs/WsfM6hceScBIUHRVbPBTAnliw6aDOwfhgF6raVFECHg ]
To clarify I don't think the long-time hackers on that list are trying to oust major free software figures.

What they are doing is a partial capitulation to those who are, most of whom are trying to effect a value shift in the free software community that undermines the bedrock principles of free software itself. I refer you to Coraline Ada Ehmke's views on the "pernicious cult of meritocracy" and her attempts to get licenses with legally sticky do-no-evil clauses approved as free/open source licenses.
I have found many people saying that a rad-hardened Z80 with ferrite-core memory was used on the Space Shuttle, though I can't find an authoritative source to back that up.
>The Inuit are one of the few indigenous groups in Canada that managed to keep their culture relatively intact

Because they aren't wealthy enough to be worth a lot as taxable income and didn't control an area with dense/lucrative enough natural resources to be worth subjugating. Without money or something that could be converted to money there was no reason for the city slickers to go out of their way to impose/integrate (word choice depends on which side you're on) their culture. You can see this pattern more or less worldwide. On every continent there are people who live in the remote parts, nominally under some government but are mostly left to do their own thing because they have little to take and take little from the government. If you want to be left alone it's best to be someone not worth bothering.

I agree that it's nice to see them become more of a defined culture (language and all) since being obviously delineated from the rest will help them maintain their own autonomy and culture.
Interesting. So it's not implemented as a check on fork()/exec() for example? (checking an xattr shouldn't be too onerous to do practically. Not sure I think it's a good idea. Then again, we've had the "exec" bit for many decades...).

Ed: seems there is a more general check now - but limited to checking against known "malware" - not "whitelist" (motorized)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180317
Is the main difference between CLT and plywood that CLT is a crossed grain stack of sawn lumber instead of peeled veneers?
It goes beyond that; technically, there are no flags in Unicode.

Instead, there are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Indicator_Symbol — an symbol-alphabet where any pair of successive symbols from the alphabet are meant to be considered a ligature (so, a space of 36^2 = 1296 possible ligatures), where a subset of these ligatures are considered valid representations of a locale from the Unicode's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Locale_Data_Repository.

Unicode doesn't say that you should render these CLDR-valid locale meta-codepoints as flags, though. It just says they're locales. In other words, it's up to a given font to decide whether to draw these as flags, and which of them to draw as flags.

With this move, they've abdicated the political determination over to, mostly, the OS manufacturers (since right now most OSes just have one OS emoji font that gets used for the graphical-pictograph-rendering process, rather than allowing user-installed emoji font-families.)

Personally, I like this choice. No matter what any government says, Taiwan is its own locale—it has its own time zone, clock and currency display formats, etc. Locales are locales no matter who declares ownership over them. Having "locale icons" rather than geopolitical-region flags is probably the most stable arrangement we can have, even if it means that some OSes will just render a particular locale-icon as nothing.
I think you're conflating a few things. All meritocracy is, is saying "he gets the job because he's the best" as opposed to "he gets the job because he's my/the king's son". Why someone is the best, is a completely different question. Talent, effort, genetics & IQ, education, nutrition (possibly one of the biggest contributors to the rise of IQ in the 20th century), ... Now, I think it's prudent, from the perspective of society and/or individual companies, to not just consider who is the best right now but also who has the most potential (to be the best in the future), because extreme innate talent seems to be widely distributed and found in unexpected places (e.g. Ramanujan), so societies that fail to identify and develop that talent are losing out... But then, this idea is orthogonal to meritocracy (e.g. already the Habsburg empire recognized the value of public schooling and literacy of the general population).
That's incorrect. The structural properties are completely different.
His job is to present his idea, mostly write and present it. He does not need to go in schools,bars and churches to trick people into his believes. He has a mathematical style of presenting things: primary notions, definitions, axioms . Though I liked his sense of humor (probably some religions zelot would dislike the saint joke)
The percent impact would be negligible, I expect lower than daily fluctuation. Anyway, the law isn't just designed to protect shareholders, it's designed to protect everyone.

If someone can make money by fraud, that money is not justification to allow fraud. The US economy relies on dependable contacts.
This is an incredibly tortured alternate history metaphor.

A much simpler real world analogy would be the DPRK forcing censorship of the South Korean flag, or the ROK doing the same to North Korea. Or something involving Israel and Iran. Or India and Pakistan.
China Banned South Park After the Show Made Fun of Chinese Censorship
Really nice app and a hardworking team that I know first-hand!

Best of lucks!
You seem to disagree that that imperfection, along with his other documented imperfections, isn't sufficient to induce people to want to walk away from his leadership.

You're entitled to your opinion, but other people would disagree with your opinion on the topic. And because free software is free as in freedom, they're certainly welcome to attempt to route around him (whether that fractures the community will be up to the community as a whole).
The best way to create a harmonious new world of progressive thinking and acceptance is by viciously attacking your perceived enemies at every opportunity.
Meltano Graduates to Version 1.0
The total tax rates are available in the chart in the article, from the research by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. The rich do not have a much higher effective rate.
On 32 cores? Doesn't seem like particularly great scaling.
> but our annual raise are often in line with inflation should they be excluded?

This misunderstands the point of indexing gains for inflation, or applying a lower rate to income that is mixed with inflation. The point is that you pay tax on the income in the year it is earned (or soon thereafter). It doesn't matter what the money was earned for, whether you got a raise, or anything else. The point is that it's all money that you just got right now. It's different when you are taxed on a mix of "real" gains (in the economic sense) and inflation.
I agree with your conclusion, but I'm not so confident "moneyed" special interest groups are the issue. I could speculate it has more to do with voter interest priorities in general.

Take California DMV for example. The DMV is led by state governor appointees. No governor will be voted in or out office based on DMV improvement performance. Running government services well hardly ranks in voters minds
I'm not sure how you're getting any kind of round statistics here. especially since its well known that most people who suffer harassment never report it, never say anything, for precisely the reasons being demonstrated on this thread today. And that was only one of the things wrong with that post, another being: people who choose to take a stand on harassment are somehow going to be mediocrities compared to stallman.
Except the model 3 doesn't have an unlimited mile warranty for the battery. eHawk got two ~$5-7k batteries for free which wouldn't happen with the model 3. Additionally, they get a fair amount of "goodwill" work and inspections done. If you add in the costs for the two batteries that were replaced the TCO would be above that of the town car. Additionally, most taxis these days are hybrids which have a lower TCO than the ford. 20 mpg vs ~50 mpg, with a more reliable platform as well.
Fawlty Towers when dubbed in Spain changed Manuel (a dumb waiter from Barcelona I think) to be Mexican.
> Anyway this is par for the course of Hacker News. The troll post always is highest ranked.

:( HN is the platform on the net where you will read "RSS should be used more" and "Thanks Dave Winer for this great tech" most often. And here you have a comment of someone with no history of trolling (according to his most recent posts at least) who made himself very small ("I was an idiot") and apologized to you, and you insult not only him, but the whole platform.

Dave, you don't know me, but a lot of people here read you. And so many of the developers here build software with technology you like (i.e. I implemented a RSS feed for my blog software, a feed reader [with opml import!], a rss polling and pushing infrastructure, and a RSS focused SaaS pipes revival site) and share some of your ideals. Is it really necessary to be antagonistic to all of us? How is this a winning strategy?

And assume for a moment latchkeys story is genuine. You don't remember it, but so what, it was 25 years ago and you said yourself you had lots of bad interactions at that time. I'd be very surprised if some idiot kid acting badly is something you would remember. Your reaction now to his public apology would be devastating.

From your second comment:

> His memory of me, a guy who he says created software that he used and liked, is the time he treated me like an object.

To me it reads like he treated you like one of his friends, which obviously was a bad idea if you have a different age and cultural background, besides not sharing this strange feeling of knowing someone because you read his blogs for years, who of course never realized you exist.
Nobody is shaming anyone.
I don't know a huge amount about the manufacturing of the materials, so I'm not sure. The binding material may also be different for CLT.
> the current size of the world's population - is dependent on a lot of programmable devices.

Not to mention the energy supply chain. If the supply chain required to make electronics collapses, that probably also means the energy supply chain has collapsed, or has at least been severely disrupted. That seems far more likely to be damaging and far more quickly that a lack of ability to keep a microcontroller running. If I don't have gas for my car, it doesn't really matter if I can fix it when it breaks down. (And I run out of gas in a few hundred miles, but repairs are required on the order of tens of thousands of miles.)

This is really what I was trying to get it with my first comment. The problems presented by a lack of ability to make new technology are the sorts of problems that take months or years to become critical, but in a true collapse setting, the issues that matter most would unfold in days or weeks.

(I feel like I should point out that I don't think any of this is particularly likely.)
This is really tricky, because sincere and respectful words by one party can still be perceived as hurtful by another. Especially in this issue, there is frequently no middle ground where both parties are happy.

I mean, it's kind of ironic: Calling someone an asshole is undoubtedly rude and aggressive (even when done in good faith). And you said that it's not only ok but necessary when you perceive someone as an asshole. But above you complained exactly about "being rude/aggressive in service of justice". So... which is it?
The Hacker News Effect – Wide but Not Deep
What would you think about the whole thing if the missing money announcement came on the 9th of September ("can you believe it came less than 48 hours after Rumsfeld came public with this info!?)? The 8th? The 4th? The 1st?

The 10th of September, 2001 was a Monday. What percentage of announcements are delayed until the start of the business week? How close did this particular announcement come to being delayed to Tuesday (in which case it wouldn't have even happened)? There are so many factors that pivot on the most tenuous or whimsical of things that it actually is borderline ridiculous to read too much into any one single aspect of it.
Have you seen Dice's latest billboard advertisement recently?

It says "Who can afford to live in Seattle? Programmers!". For most of Seattle proper, its a sad but accurate statement.
The CPU/GPU architecture is still done by ARM for those.
The precursor to R, S, was designed as a Unix tool, and pretty much implicitly relied on awk as its data-cleaning preprocessor.

For those who come from the world of large enterprise statistical and data reporting tools such as SAS, awk shares an exceedingly strong resemblance to the SAS DATA step, whilst R effectively provides a host of analysis and graphics tools the correspond to numerous other SAS procedure and products.

The hacks for pipelining R are cool and useful. Thanks.
> enrich the lives of the residents

Mostly, it’s retaining residents’ property values. By not building any new housing.
I found it disappointing that the models supporting sidecar were a bit limited. My 2015 MacBook Air couldn’t do it, only 2016 and newer Air models.

I understand I’m usually spoiled when it comes to how long Apple provides software support, but disappointed none the less.
Heads up for developers like me building Mac apps, this release is going to take a little more adoption time than most due to the 64bit-only nature of this release.

For example, I know there is a contingent of people who are stuck at Adobe CS6, whose certain critical components are 32 bit. Since Adobe no longer sells permanent licenses, opting to only rent their software instead, it's impossible to get these updated. And these expensive and still-in-use licenses are going to die the moment people update to Catalina.
A Federal Privacy Board Is Reviewing DHS’ Airport Facial Recognition Programs
Have you seen unicode? They usually err on the side of including everything, including, e.g., alphabets of fictional languages.
My first thought was this leading to DoS, even accidental ones.

If you're testing that your binary builds requests properly, maybe you've got it making them as fast as possible and you're running it without network permissions. Fine, until it suddenly runs with full network access and hammers whatever service you're pointing at.
But isn't the point of Redis is to be used as a caching layer instead of persistent layer
Thank you very much for sharing. Using almost all of the tools you mention myself[^1]. But you give lots of new inspiration. And mention many new tools that I will explore.

Funny that today I started using SublimeText again for the exact same purpose you describe: Creating a wiki / knowledge base that is text based (markdown FTW), editing those markdown files, quickly jumping to files within nested folders (via Cmd+P = Goto anywhere). Was searching an alternative to `Quiver App` or `Dash App` to create a code snippet database / repository.

After I started using `iA Writer` for writing markdown, I realized how much better it is to move away from Evernote, Quiver or other proprietary writing apps to markdown (=plaintext) + folders. A little research later I narrowed down to: Emacs+Orgmode+Terminal or Vim+FZF+Ripgrep+Terminal. I realized that SublimeText gives me all the Ripgrep+FZF capabilities, and a decent markdown editor. (Still I love and use `iA Writer` for non-technical writing and SublimeText for all else.)

[^1]: Karabiner Elements, Alfred App, Keyboard Maestro and many more.
What would be the best time to visit YNP? I have a long vacation coming up in Nov - Dec and would like to visit though I am not sure if Winter would be a good season to visit. Any tips?
What's it take for an engineer in the US to actually do something like this?

If my boss/product manager wanted me to do something like this, I'd be calling them out for shitty politics, and telling them they need to find a new engineer because I'd quit immediately - and likely incite others to come with me.

Maybe I have a higher sense of morality than others, but I'm no shill for China's power over Taiwan. I can use my entitlement/privilege as an engineer to say "fuck off" to anyone who wants me to do things I find immoral. Furthering the needs of a power hungry regime looking to assert dominance over others? Nope. I spend all my day working to further democracy and freedom, not to enable free thought and self-determination to be squashed.

Whoever coded this change and approved this PR, shame on you.
While Larry Niven is most famous for his hard science fiction, in the traditional sense of the term, he also has a fantasy universe, with a decent introduction at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Goes_Away In this universe, magic is a finite quantity, which gets used up. The modern world is mundane not because magic is impossible, but because it was all used up.

(It would be interesting if he ever wrote the story set in this universe, after the modern times, in which humanity gets out to space, and, uh, hey guyz, magic kinda... works out here... what the heck? It wouldn't necessarily take long to figure out what the deal is with Earth being a dead zone, but it would cause some interesting political upheaval as suddenly the sparse space colonies that nobody thought were worth anything and barely even worth the effort became industrial powerhouses as the only place where magic works... and not just the tame, dying magic of Niven's stories, but the original wild, abundant magic the stories claimed Earth initially had.)
"Organizations" are a two-way street. A leader with no followers isn't "an organization;" it's just another solo project on Github.
Email address is in his profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=famousactress
Right, so if the assholery happens at work then the equivalent of "shouldn't invite you over for dinner again" is being asked not to come back to work.
It sounds good in theory that "They exist to protect the environment and enrich the lives of the residents". Then I'm reminded that environment protection laws have been used to build larger freeways (because we don't want to have cars idling too long!)
At this point the truth or falsity of the minutiae, or whether the conclusions are fair or not are irrelevant. Once a former leader no longer has the political capital to be seen as effective, or their involvement proves to be a greater distraction than it's worth, no more needs to be said.
Most famously quoted in the play "A Man for all Seasons"

"It profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... But for Wales?"

Thomas More is convicted and will be executed, on the false evidence of a man who he now sees is wearing a chain of office, he asks to see the chain (thereby establishing for the audience what the reward was for lying to secure More's conviction). The chain is for the Attorney General for Wales, prompting this line.

In reality Richard Rich was given a slightly different job with a longer title that doesn't afford such a fun line and of course we can't prove he got it for his deceits, though he does seem like he wasn't on the whole a truthful and upstanding person.
This comment breaks both the Show HN guidelines and the site guidelines. Would you please read them and follow the rules when posting here? It's important not to poison the threads like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

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A Ford Explorer is unibody and is also definitely not a slightly taller car.

Besides, the statement was "big SUVs".
Grossly inaccurate is the best way of describing the screening time, I've done the amazon fulfillment center tour and seen employees check in for different shifts, it does not take 25 minutes to go through the screening process. There's no way Amazon with its efficiency mantra would let this happen knowing how it eventually impacts the bottom line.
awesome, thats a first step towards putting brain in a jar & super long lifespans. if we can make it with all the nutrients to sustain it then we can shed most of our meat-space parts and interface with neural AI fabric directly.
It's definitely not the right example to give to impress the crowd around here, but she was basically saying in that part of the article that a feminist background gives you a different perspective on technology. Makes sense. The comparison of unpaid domestic work and unpaid online content creation was kind of interesting to me.
I'd assume the reason it's not advertised on the Mac App Store is because OS updates are now done through System Preferences.
If you're not growing you're dying off
Firefox doesn't make it's decisions based on the same criteria as Google, but: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/18/still-not-using-...

What are your thoughts on that?
Perhaps in the modern era, but less so in the past. The IRS also has a workaround if you can't prove your tax basis, which is to consider it all gains. That's a reasonable fallback for calculating gains, because if you don't have proof of basis, it's likely to be an older acquisition (and one which is more highly appreciated.) But the opposite is true for inflation adjusting, which would leave people with no records to be considered to have zero tax basis (all gains) and no inflation adjustment.
They didn’t, because apparently the time requirement off the clock isn’t clearly communicated up front when they are hired. You can’t make an informed choice if you don’t have the information. This is why employment legislation is so important - otherwise employers can spring extra costs and demands on employees with impunity.

And no, it’s not acceptable to expect them to simply resign. Changing jobs can also incur significant costs on people, which can allow employers to exploit their position of power over employees.
You're not the odd one out. My laptop running ubuntu has 4GB, I use it for everything, I use Firefox all the time, and it's fine. I even edit video now and then.
I thought Apple took the physical Taiwan flag and hid it in Hong Kong. And clicked to find out why.
Sure, but the court case is only going to involve one company. In this case Amazon, which is not surprising, since their policies impact far more workers than almost any other corporation. But the result of the case impacts all the rest.
Sorry I just don't know what your original comment meant and was trying to understand it better.
Zone of Death
Sorry, I should have said "writing off" not "throwing away"
But what if you could have the speed of RAM-based storage, and still have persistence? Sounds pretty appealing to me, personally.
Not always, or even close to most of the time—but the poisonous comments unfortunately stand out so much that they loom large in one's impression of these threads.