skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have long ago stated that while I agree that cost-benefit analysis is relevant, I disagree with your opinion that there are no realistic alternatives to the current practices.

CONAIE is an concrete example of my previous statement that "Poor people demand an improved environment too - it's not a special demand limited to the middle class or richer." It is a counter-example to your implication at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21248038 that we need to get people into the middle class first, in order that they demand we improve the environment.

I gave that one because you seemed to have rejected my earlier example of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, likely because you confused people in poverty (a large fraction of that tribe are in poverty) with the "rich society" of the US.

Respecting the rights of indigenous people is another way to let them have a say in the international community. Not that it makes a difference here since I'm pointing to their success in protecting the environment on the national stage in Ecuador.

You'll note that your "better and more modern cars" implies that all people want cars. Some indigenous people expressly do not.

You like talking about "worth". How do you balance the "worth the cost of upending the current use of ex fossil fuels" vs. the worth of indigenous lives and lifestyles?

Because the only way I see that you can do a cost-benefit analysis is to have some way to judge that balance. And my balance is far more on the side of indigenous lives than on the loss of profits to the rich.
Suspension of disbelief. I live in Germany, and every movie and most shows take place during the summer when it's sunny and the characters are not wearing a jacket even in the evening.

That kind of weather is seen for a few days in July and August, current anomalous weather notwithstanding.
Isn't oracle only charging for support of older jdk's as well? If you just stay on the current version path of upgrading every 6 months you shouldn't have to pay for anything at all.

Does any language offer free support for years old versions?
This is fundamentally why people buy DGX machines from Nvidia. It's preloaded. You have to figure out how to use them though.
Google (Or Apple) is pretty serious regarding their app stores rules and regulations.

Google owns the app store. So, developers should abide rules imposed by Google although the rules do not seem reasonable all the time.

My suggestion is, developer can still implement in-app billing, removing "donation" wording. For the in-app item, make it as good-to-have feature like "unlocking additional app color theme".

With such, he will still abide the rule, yet able to get his monetary reward.
overdose, possibly unsanitary conditions, no control over the preparation/application
The baby never separated from the mother. Only the father was separated from the two. And reading the other comments, it sounds like this family aren't being entirely truthful with their story.
Why oh why would they care about a powerless, broke, and decaying country like Venezuela?

Got any deep throat sources for this besides some out-of-options “president”?
At the end of the article you can see quite a bold attempt at curve fitting.
Sorry for the lack of clarity - only the user typing “assist” needs to have a subscription. We host publicly accessible tunnels so that this works wherever you are.

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>As for transport, cars are already pretty unfeasable in SF with the population as is. Whats so bad about investing more in public transit and biking?

Simple: Americans hate public transit and biking, and want to stick with cars no matter how infeasible it is. They'd rather commute two hours, each way, in gridlocked traffic than get on a train. And they don't mind becoming fat because of this lifestyle.

>As for crime and traffic, most larger cities in Europe are much cleaner and safer than SF.

That's true, but I will point out that because of Europe's use of diesel, most European cities reek of diesel fumes, and this is bad for public health there.
Specialization in college/university?
mine last week. it's been hard.
Yes, everything. Adults 18-21 already have access to meth and other drugs.

Regarding your other speculation about decriminalizing drugs, we don't have to speculate. Other countries have already done it and seen improvements in their society. Crime and addiction rates go down.

We have a horrible balance. Every single day we have prohibition, drug convictions ruin more people's lives and it makes it harder for them to get help for their addictions.

Every day we have prohibition, SWAT teams have another chance to run wild with lies https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/14/l...
I have always wondered if all the power outages and other infrastructure issues after Morsi got into power in Egypt was because of either the US or Irsael. This was a major reason why he lost a lot of public support.
Singapore does it. But they are special in so many other regards, too.

(Oh, and the Dutch of course.)
It should in theory. I assume there will be clinical trials in the future if there is continued success with the alcohol and other ones.
Tesla's Project Titan program replaced bad solar panel parts
Yeah, that definitely happens from time to time. Here is a pretty famous case from recent history: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-24/trump-ass...
Oh come on. If it was actually about rape, law and protecting women, they would have actually pressed charges, not just dropped the case as soon as he came out of the embassy, and leave him to the Americans.
No one has done more to push drugs than the govt. Whether its flooding the ghettos during Iran contra, mk ultra or Timothy Leary. Our govt was behind it all. I'd guess after mlk jr they pushed the whole drug thing to keep real change from happening
Wow that really is a staggering difference in cost per mile.
As someone who has been a tourist in London multiple times, I've never done anything other than catch public transport in and out. Be it Heathrow or the other airports, they're all very accessible by public transport. More so than a lot of other international airports (for example Melbourne Tullamarine)

If you fly in internationally the Heathrow Express also quickly deposits you at St Pancras. Unfortunately, despite the speed, it's not worth the additional cost in my opinion.
> It may be tied to certain other psychological theories, like the terror management theory, Feltham says. Terror Management suggests that human nature is actually wired towards self-deception: In order to avoid facing terrifying concepts like death, most of us live in a state of self-delusion. And maybe, when we're depressed, we're just less likely to be deceived.

For what it's worth, Terror Management Theory has pretty much failed to replicate:
https://psyarxiv.com/dkg53/ ("Failed pre-registered replication of mortality salience effects in traditional and novel measures")

Just one study, whole theory doesn't depend on one replication attempt, etc. -- but the baseline rate for a set of social psych findings being legit should probably be <50% at the outset.
You are arguing for a hard cutover, which is how we got into this mess in the first place. By using a forward or backward shim, one can run on both. 2to3 is a CASE tool, it requires manual fixup, so it cannot be used to maintain a dual version codebase.
Not that I agree with it, but cash definitely can be considered criminal in large amounts. Having a few hundred to a few thousand is enough to be arrested in the US, assuming you're not protected by celebrity.
I think the modern equivalent of this is, "Soy-derived pills to make your brain strong and masculine after being weakened by soy-derived products."
Don’t forget that “the government “ consists of many departments full of people with conflicting interests. What one part may view as useful could be viewed by another part as treason.
Genuine question, why does he say NYT and WaPo present "center to far right opinion"? C'mon. How NYT is far right?
It surely wouldn't be good for American society, but at least it's a choice for those who decide to use those substances.

As it stands, the prohibition on drugs has created a business that many find worth resorting to violence over, and it impacts people in Mexico who would never have chosen to get involved.

There's no good answer here, but letting addicts drop out of society and damage their health with legal drugs seems more moral than banning drugs and having bystanders suffer.
I just wish MS would release Edgium already... we can drop so many hacks and finally stop supporting IE11 once Edgium is released because we can just tell customers on IE11 to use Edge.
To zoom out slightly, consider the famous phrase war is politics with guns.

Would it ever be the case that war is politics with cyber strikes?

As the article points out, the strikes were politically motivated (against Iran's regime), but were they an act of war?

Under what circumstances should the American people tolerate an act of war being carried out on their "behalf"?

In my view, the democratic process should be used to prevent the US from doing "warmaking" that is not broadly supported by the public.

In fact, as it is well known, the framers required congress to declare war.

So what is the purpose of the US conducting such a strike done without democratic consent?

My guess is that it was conducted to help nudge the American people into accepting acts of war by executive fiat against Iran, when the legal justification for them is at risk of being removed via the democratic process (1). The house passed a bill requiring congressional authorization, but the senate did not.

So we can view the cyber strike as the executive branch asserting its power to make war against Iran without the sort of missiles and bombs that make Americans easily think of it as war.

1. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/19/18691936/h...
The curvature of the Earth is already accounted for; my house sits upon a foundation of poured concrete which is leveled off and flattened locally. In this way, we also accounted for the gravitational geoid variation around the house. Honestly, I have to compensate more for the curvature of the floorboards!
> The world is very large, and cities are a very small portion of it. The land we set aside for animals should be outside of cities, where far more land is available at far less impact to people.

Wetlands in particular are pretty rare and environmentally valuable places though. The fact that you would fill them in and "set aside" some probably less valuable land somewhere else is not very reassuring.
Also available on APKMirror

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Plenty of reasons. The most obvious use that comes to mind is to avert government censorship. Then there are whistleblowers. There are more reasons to desire anonymity than illegal activity.

Edit: also, ISPs can sell your browsing information now: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/04/isps-can...
You were right I misinterpreted "out[0] to out[index-1]" but your next statement:

> count of how many numbers are in out[]

is not true, in the latter case it's a count of how many numbers you want to be in out[].

Consider what happens if howmany is 1 and it generates a single even number. In the original you have an empty array and index 0, in the newer one you have an array e.g. [2] and an index 0.

Yes, you can solve this by 'manually' only returning the first "index" elements but it's just asking for trouble and a source of bugs as seen in your attempt to describe it have a difference between the reality and your description.

You might not consider that to matter, but the point I'm trying to make isn't just nitpicking, it's that there are certain expected behaviours from code, and an array which is "all odd numbers, except maybe all odd but one last even number" is bound to lead to broken expectations.
That would have been acceptable if in parallel Google didn't own Google Play...
Remember how installing apk's was claimed to be a viable alternative to Google Play for even the average user ?
For reference, I purchased a Micron system with a dual Pentium Pro slot W6-Li motherboard (but -- and this is crucial -- only one 180MHz PPro chip), SCSI internals, 64MB of RAM and a CD writer, for $5200. This was in 1996.

If I recall correctly, adding the second PPro 180MHz chip added around $2k to the price. Call it $7-8k all in.

The 200MHz PPro had a SPECInt92 value of 366[0]. You can find a list of other SPECInt92 values here[1]. So it was, indeed, faster than many systems, but not the fastest. Value for money? Yeah, it had it.

There were x86 versions of SVR4 UNIX available commercially, so it's quite plausible that you could do an apples-to-apples comparison. I'm sure one is out there, but I don't have the time to find one.

It's worth noting that in 1994, Eric S. Raymond discontinued his "PC-clone UNIX buyers guide" because he had switched to Linux, and didn't think that UNIX had a future. [2]

I think it's still fair to say that the dedicated UNIX workstations had a certain panache that made "real" engineers want them, badly.

[0] https://www.hpcwire.com/1995/11/03/200-mhz-intel-pentium-pro...

[1] http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/new.spec.cint...

[2] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/clone-unix-guide.txt
Was there any measurable effect? I'm not convinced anything was accomplished here.
MongoDB used the AGPL for years but transitioned to the SSPL when AGPL turned out to offer insufficient protection from being "AWS"d.

Mongo's explanation: "[there was] confusion in the marketplace about the trigger and scope of the Remote Network Interaction provision of AGPL" [1]

Though, ultimately, AWS's "work-around" to this arms-race was to reverse-engineer MongoDB, abiding by its interface & APIs to offer a drop-in replacement: DocumentDB. [2]

[1] https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-documentdb-with-...
Not only flevoland, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieringermeer.
But we also have to give back some land for nature: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertogin_Hedwigepolder#cite_no... (only dutch though)
Stop pushing this story with this ridiculously click-baited title. More like "ICE detains family crossing border illegally with $16k in cash, previously denied entry".
People say "flyover country" as metonymy of the two different realities that are both called "USA", but "transit country" and "SUV country" may be better images.

Outside the USA, 80% of what we see on TV shows is NYC. Sometimes I have this acute FOMO that I should be miserably scraping by in NYC just to be in the Navel of the World. It's just a mindfuck to us unamericans how big the US really is and how empty and boring.
> hell of a lot cheaper

Not just cheaper, but faster, too. Before Linux really took off, there was a time when it was starting to look like Windows was going to become the only player in town. I kept trying to make a case for Unix (that is, Solaris back then) and the deeper I dug the less convincing my case became. Sun & Irix hardware was orders of magnitude more expensive with worse performance than PCs no matter how I measured it. You can go on and on (and I tried) about how the hardware architecture is upgradeable, how it’s more fault tolerant, how it’s better tuned to the OS, but at the end of the day the only thing the Sun hardware had going for it was you could run the Unix toolchain on it.
Not a Yahooligan, but a comment from a staff member on the now-removed Help Forums about two years ago indicated that Yahoo had "deprioritized" Yahoo Groups and would be providing only the most minimal of support. This feels much like the AIM shutdown, even if some things will continue to work for an undefined period of time.
Only the user typing “assist” needs to have a subscription and they can use it across all of their machines on a single license.

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While it is very suspicious what's happened, I've ridden with people who have inadvertently offloaded on to bike paths and continued to drive as if nothing was wrong.
> And is Market St in the middle of downtown really the place for someone who needs that accessibility?

You should be ashamed for saying this. Sickening.
I think this is key, but it costs a lot from companies (and also people), culturally, economically, and sometimes constrained by law.

Should you keep all seats even when 20% of your workforce prefers to work remote? What do you do with those seats when they are empty? It's possible, and it's great when it's there, just not as simple as choosing one option or the other.

I happen to prefer to work alone, but I recognize those times when meetings or pair programming are truly valuable and needed, and I jump to it at once when needed. It's about recognizing the pros and cons of each approach, and minimize the impact of the cons as much as you can.
Just beautiful. We have our Baudrillard and The Matrix and think we are so different, modern, cutting edge, living in a 21st century hyperreality. Rumi saw it 800 years ago!
Yes, and this is the real issue to me. The end user having a computer science PhD or not won't change that.
> Unlocking bootloader is not the same as rooting.

True, but having an unlocked bootloader makes rooting trivial.

Those wanting to root devices with locked bootloaders have to depend on exploiting security flaws in their OS to do so. This means intentionally ignoring security updates and potentially maintaining a vulnerable device just to be able to retain root. These exploits tend to be device specific as well and often carry a risk of at least soft-bricking.

Those with an unlockable bootloader can just unlock and flash in something like Magisk in a pretty much universal fashion.
This is half the newspaper nowadays. Every journalist just repeats what some official with an impressive job title says and nobody gets to question why the story is being pushed by this person because they are never identified. It's naive to call for prosecution, this story was almost surely leaked and approved by the US State Department before it was written.

Journalists should really dig their heels in and start resisting this, but that will never happen. It's just bad journalism and they keep letting themselves get manipulated.

I don't even care about the classified information aspect of this, the classification system in the US is a complete farce and will be reformed soon, clearly nobody respects it all anymore at any level of the intel community.
As a few have posted, this isn't decades of optimised C vs 80 lines of Haskell, this is basic C vs basic Haskell, and C is orders of magnitude faster.

The entire source for wc is here [0], and is 900 lines of very readable C, it does more than count words, includes options, arguments, usage, licenses. WHen I strip everything back, it's only about 300 lines of very readable C.

[0] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/wc.c
manufacturing will simply move further eastward or directly to china.

> You definitely want to sell your stuff in Poland in the next couple of years

not so sure. as a matter of fact I'm looking rn at some property on the Krakow-Katovice axis, they're still cheap as dirt and will grow quite some ways before eventually crashing all down, so there's space for some speculation. and there's still the euro looming at the horizon and that will do a number to inflation so if plan A fail plan B can still extract a lot of value from the property.
They target and serve ads. Yahoo is still a key piece of Verizon's strategy for making money from internet advertising. Verizon, as a wireless carrier, knows where you are most of the time, and the various internet properties of the Verizon Media Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Media) know a lot about what you do online.
Slurm works well even for a single machine. It does require some configuration but you only need to do it once and then it's very robust. The packages are available in standard repositories (like Ubuntu's) and there's a web-based configuration generator available. And if you ever want to add a second machine or more, it will be very easy to expand.

What stopped you from using Slurm?
> We need to impose an 80% repatriation tax on any profits earned in China in order to offset the damages done to our domestic freedom of speech.

Well if you think we should antagonize china for offending our freedoms, then we should be culling the nsa, fbi, and other 3 letter agencies that violate our constitutional right to privacy.

The US gov't and the chinese gov't are two faces on the same coin. The difference is the chinese gov't does what the US gov't does in the open.
Uhhhhh it's a quote from someone who said it that way, and that choice is presumably meant to convey that they aren't particularly tech savvy.
Why is CNN even remotely relevant? Their average US show gets less views in a night than a PewDiePie video. Fox News is literally 3-5x their viewership, and unlike CNN is concentrated in a very specific set of demos that is much more open to television news as a format and medium.

That CNN is part of the propaganda machine is doubtless. But they're just not that important compared to the bigger players.
As I said, it can happen but I'd assume it's done a lot less than on the "open" internet where there's no repercussions. At least in the App Store the developer would get thrown out, people would post it in the reviews or report to the App Store moderators.

Isn't the whole point of sandboxing and the permission systems exactly preventing phonebook and location data misuse? Especially location tracking prevention was a pretty big part of the iOS 13 announcements.
True. The enterprise sometimes keeps going in spite of its leaders...
Berkley, CA becomes fourth US city to ban facial recognition
Parents of Teens Are Familiar with YouTube, Facebook, Not with TikTok, Snapchat
This is amusing. Not long ago I was in a thread about how to do remote work well and the top complaint amongst remote workers was "not responding quickly to IM" (between remote workers). And the general sentiment was the expectation to respond quickly is greater in remote work. That alone made me not want to take remote jobs. At my current work place, my IM status says that whoever IM's me should not expect a response and that if their query is urgent, they should simply walk over to my cube and talk (I don't mind). If not urgent, they should email.

The other thing that came out of that thread was "If you're remote and don't respond quickly enough, people assume you're slacking off - while in the office people visibly slack off all the time and it's considered OK".
Jupyter Notebook Is the Cancer of ML Engineering
Piercing the veil... what an appropriate turn of phrase. I resonate a lot with your third paragraph. I also think it can be rude and unnecessary to expose people to this paradigm if they're not ready. It's a bad analogy, but it's almost like poison. If you're used to some types of poison, they wont cause injury, but if you're not... it could kill you. Trouble is, in my mind life is filled with these poisons and people often only narrowly avoid them-- if they do at all.
In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course–is it the right move?
Yes. This is what I suspect. But knocking out all donations using a big ban hammer is not acceptable here, it should be decided on a case-by-case basis. For example, a standard I can think of, is distinguishing donations and payments that influence the functionality of the application/service, and those that have no effect.