skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some specific points that may be lost in the headline / cursory reading of the article:

1) India as a whole is overpopulated and has a pollution problem. This particular issue is limited to Delhi, however.

2) From the perspective of the magnitude and extreme levels of pollution, this is a seasonal issue whose primary contributor, by a large margin, is farmers burning off their crop stubble after their harvest ends. This has been happening every year for some time (more on this below).

3) Political ideologues have hijacked this issue to push their pet issues like automobile emissions and firecrackers. These are obviously important issues which most reasonable people will agree ought to be curbed. Sadly a lot of otherwise intelligent folks have a blind spot when it comes to these issues, so there is a temptation to let it slide when these kinds of politics are being played dishonestly, even though their motivations are different. By emphasizing one's biased issues, the root cause is ignored, which helps nobody.

On stubble burning:

There was a time when sowing paddy in the neighbouring state of Punjab began during the first week of June. Harvest season would be mid October, and sowing would resume in late November.

During the period between October and November, farmers would let the stubble decompose over time. This required a lot of water and time.

Unfortunately this took a toll on groundwater levels. Government intervention led to a reduction in water supplies to the fields during the summer (June), when there was a shortage of water across the state. This led to a delay in the sowing season (moved to July). The entire crop cycle got moved up, and so the time previously available to allow decomposition of stubble had reduced to barely a few days. Their solution to this problem was to burn all the stubble.
Bad managers think this way. Granted, there are a lot of bad managers. Making someone want to be a better person helps you, even if you lose them. You will lose good people anyway.
I really feel so terrible for Jennifer. It was bad enough that her child had passed away, but it was pouring salt on her wounds when her employer chose to take away her leave days.

I think the old adage applies here, "make sure everything is in writing". She was promised a promotion, but she did not sign a contract and nothing was set in stone.

I learned to put everything in writing the hard way. If something is in writing, even if it is an email, then it is hard for the company to go back on their words. Having an actual contract is better, but having just about anything written down is better than just about anything verbal.

I hope Jennifer recovers, and I hope that the company she has transferred to treats her better.
> Some companies have policies that can discriminate against people who are on protected leaves by denying them commissions they have already earned

Wtf? How can that possibly be a thing?
Can you get github pages without TLS? Usually that would be stupid but in this case it's the core feature of the website.
No Indian government will openly fine farmers (they secretly fine for not maintaining the minimum balance in the bank accounts of state owned banks) -- with majority of population coming under the name "farmers" (including Amitabh Bachchan.
That’s what they say about forced arbitration. They are still appointed or hired by the municipal or county government. It beneficial for these governments to hire judges who will benefit them just like forced arbitration and companies.
The only reason anyone in the US supports these people is because they have never lived in the socialist big government utopia these politicians champion. In fact, not even the politicians themselves have lived in the society they propose! How is that for a brilliant starting point.

Ask anyone who has experienced these ideas in the flesh and you’ll find someone absolutely perplexed that US voters don’t laugh these people out of office.

As the saying goes: In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

All US voters really know about these ideas are the promises and a distorted theory and history that conveniently leaves out the horror, the reality, of these ideas. They have been implemented time and time again in various forms across continents and time. And they have laid to waste everything they touch.

You’d think people would have learned better by now. Sadly, that required an educational system rooted in fair historical exposure rather than one that pushes a single ideology at every level. This ignorance of history leads to repeating mistakes.

Here is the other fact that absolutely floors me: Nobody can name a single nation —not one— which, after adopting these policies, has elevated itself to a level even remotely resembling the success and accomplishments that can be attributed to free market capitalism.

Sure, capitalism isn’t perfect, nothing ever will be, yet it has elevated more people out of poverty, cured more disease and improved the lives of more people than anything else in recorded history.

The allure of these twisted ideas comes at the intersection of a badly educated public and the promise of solving all problems by taking from those who have more. Easy proposition.

Reality is that it never solves anything and often creates more problems. The $15/hr minimum wage “solution” is one of the best modern examples of this effects.

The other element naive supporters miss is that the politicians proposing these ideas never live the reality they want you to live. They never live it before or after they are elected. See if you can name even a single politician who has, anywhere in the world and across modern history. That should tell you something.
> Not sure how to solve that particular problem though.

I think it is less a problem to be solved than a fundamental trade-off that comes with the scale of systems: the more components a system is going to have, the greater the cost of not minimizing complexity of individual components.
If you use Chrome, check out the "How your ads are personalized" page. It gives you a glimpse of how accurate Google's targeting is based on all the data they've collected.

I went to a great Google Fireside Chat with Michal Kosinski on data privacy. He said that the only way to get around big data is to spread misinformation. Chose the opposite of your tastes, search for things you don't like, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUwBcTgzbtU
I'm not part of the Rust "community" and don't participate in any of its fora, I just like a lot of the ideas it's pushing forward (see sibling comment). "unsafe" doesn't dIsAbLe AlL pRoTeCtIoNs like the anti-Rust crowd likes to say. I've written a few small (5,000+ LOC) programs in Rust over the last five years or so and I've only personally had to dip into unsafe once in my own code. I didn't claim that Rust prevents all bugs, I pointed out that Rust programs are more stable in the case of _runtime type errors and data races_ (which they are).
> "Oligarch" originally meant the post-soviet kleptocrats who were handed control over formerly state companies at discount prices.

Aristotle already pioneered the use of the term as meaning "rule by the rich for the rich" aka plutocracy [0].

That's why the US can also be considered an oligarchy [1].

[0] https://fs.blog/2017/02/aristotles-politics/

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Exactly this. If your db changes are compatible in both directions then you are safe. It's not hard to achieve. Just make sure new columns have default values and your orm can deal with extra undefined columns and don't drop anything during migrations.
Those are stupid excuses posing as questions, but I'll play along and answer them...

1. Yes
2. No & Yes
3. Yes
I mean, lots of billionaires also essentially got lucky.

DOS and Windows weren't the most glorious software to ever stalk the Earth, they were the operating systems that happened to get popular on cheap hardware. Arguing that Bill Gates created all that wealth that comes with the network effect inherent in software and a homeowner is unduly appropriating community value is really something or other.
nabla9 said: "Inequality is best addressed by free healthcare, education and direct money transfers". To which you replied "Nonsense" and demanded more drastic measures, otherwise healthcare and education won't help. But now you say healthcare and education are what matters. I'm confused.
Not entirely meaningless; it's kind of like a Bloom filter. False positives exist, but false negatives are unlikely. Combined with other data in the style of the Panopticlick, one can obtain a target set to which to apply closer scrutiny.
It is not voting against your own interest if your interest is a fair world and not highest amount of private money.
Even the best tests only catch like 50% of the bugs though.
In the UK they certainly do. There's usually a campaign around the christmas season. But it's carried out under the guise as a general vehicle checkpoint. When stopped the officer will speak to the driver and then if they have "good reason" to suspect you've been drinking can insist on a portable breathalyser test.

This reddit comment sums things up reasonably well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/policeuk/comments/803y16/drink_driv...
That seems to be more driven by a fear of out of control costs - also, the US chamber tends to represent smaller and a medium sized businesses.

Also it may be driven by fears of losing member support, as happened when they supported the clinton health care reform in the 90's
I work at Google and I’m voting for Bernie Sanders
Backdoors in x86 assembly instructions microcode
Why does Chrome (or maybe other browsers) not just keep a local cache of the most used Google web fonts by default? Seems like an easy performance win if they're used on lots of sites…
You know you've made it when people will shout, "Don't you know who I am?!" for you.

Raising a child looks like it's a game of, "How few orders of consequences can I reach before I see how my child's behavior is my responsibility?" to some parents.

Some parents take this to a negative place by blaming themselves for their kids negative traits, especially so if their kid is dominated by those traits. Other parents claim credit for the wonderful things about their kid, again especially so when the kid is defined by those positive traits.

It takes a wholly different kind of parent to be proud of how they're effecting their kid before they even know how the kid ends up turning out, setting aside the reality that parents are only one part of the vast swirl of influence a child experiences.

The pushback to this article might come from Sivers pre-supposing his kid is better off for having his father treat him as he does.
The reason why the code failed to realize there was even an issue?...(in the case I mentioned earlier)

The software looked at the calibration data using linear best fit (standard stuff) and provided the r^2 was within the specified range - that instrument and the data was good to go.

Well, if you run your Standards{1,2,3,4,5} and all output "0.0". That is a straight (perfectly so) line.

They had no idea how to read the computer monitor and the real time data coming off the instrument. They had zero real training / understanding of even how the instrument worked.

I see this a lot still - people using an instrument without a great understanding of how the thing even works. Why? There's just no money/resources being spent to ensure correctness - self regulation is (and has been) all the rage for decades here in the US.

Honestly, I believe in open software - and this type of software NEEDS to be opened up. I can only imagine the horrors that will be found.
It's not easy to fight consumerism, all governments goals are even to keep it high, sadly. But there must be new rules, with climate/environment in first role

I live in France, electricity isn't too dirty to produce (nuclear), and I can't say I abuse it, I don't heat a lot, I like to sleep in the cold, maybe 3 months a year, and I have no air-conditioning of course, this is a nonsense.

I use a bike for everything, so my main CO2 footprint might be from the vegetables/fruits I buy, they are still quite locally produced (France/Spain/Italy/Morocco for clementines sometimes) (I mean I wouldn't buy a pineapple/mango from another continent, this too is an absolute nonsense)
A nice overview of what recently (2009) changed and what's changing now (2018-19) and the related politics by Shekhar Gupta: https://youtu.be/OAnSS6rdJCA
Government spending in capitalist countries creates returns to capital. Financing that spending almost entirely through taxes on labor, as the US does today, means that government spending is (in part) a direct transfer from labor to capital.

Also, capital is not a scarce resource in the US today. For firms that would be worth investing in but don't have access to capital on reasonable terms, the reason for their lack of access is a combination of incentive problems and inefficiency on the part of e.g. VC firms, not because the capital isn't out there. It's true that a wealth tax would increase the cost of equity, but the Finance 101 strategy of "only initiate a project if the IRR of the expected cashflows is greater than the cost of equity" isn't really meaningful for startups since the future cashflows are so uncertain.

If by "those who need capital the most" you mean charities and not startups, a wealth tax would just incentivize giving more to charities and doing it sooner.
Even if your claim of "probably ... less than 1% of Go code" is accurate, appearing somewhat less often than 1 out of every 100 lines of code is _everywhere_ to me...
> And how is that different than getting someone to regurgitate problems thet learned by studying leetCode?

It isn't. Which is why the trick is to find a problem that the person hasn't heard of and ask them that.

> If you can’t code fizzbuzz even after being told about the mod operator, how can you be expected to solve harder business problems once given the requirements?

I'm frankly bored of interviewing CS graduates who can give me a perfect definition of modulus but can't do fizzbuzz.
In the same kind of ideas, there is also a mind blowing trick with "Kaleidoscopic Iterated Function Systems" which allows for a very compact code by folding space to create psychedelic fractals. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/tdcGDj (move mouse, and view associated video for more).
The ground pollution is not a walk in the park either

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=india+pollution
You've touched a nerve...

- - - -

I've been an "apocalyptic" since I was about twelve years old: I believe these are the end times, and that our global civilization is about to experience some kind of drastic upheaval.

That was about thirty years ago. Before the weather went strange. Things have only gotten worse since then.

- - - -

These are the main scenarios to consider:

Apocalypse: civilization crashes and we are in a "Mad Max" world, if we survive at all.

Techno-utopia: science and technology save the day. Star-trek (if human nature is good) or N. Korea (if human nature is bad.)

Gaia: apply e.g. Permaculture to create an eco-uptopia. This is both science-flavored and Spiritual.

Spiritual transformation: e.g. what the "Mayan Apocalypse" of 2013 was supposed to be, or the Christian Rapture.

- - - -

Personally, I hope for the Eco-utopian version of the Gaia transformation -or- the Spiritual transformation (we all go to space-heaven.)

If you're interested in bio-mimetic economics, go watch Toby Hemenway's (RIP) videos: http://tobyhemenway.com/videos/ esp. "How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Planet – But Not Civilization" and "Redesigning Civilization with Permaculture"

If you're interested in the Spiritual transformation pick a religion and practice it. Or meditate. Or use the Core Transformation process (a simple algorithm. https://www.coretransformation.org/ )

If the crash scares you the best thing you can do is move to the remote mountains, "three days further out than a hungry person can walk." Move now while you still can.

Last but not least, if you place your faith in technology then you should... Hmm, i don't know what you do then. Get involved in politics? To make sure the tech is applied in human-values-enhancing ways?

- - - -

Regardless of the external circumstances, the most efficient and effective thing to do is cultivate Self-awareness. It's the only true panacea and it helps both on the personal and societal levels.
Any intervention by government that picks our locks only works with platforms that choose or can be forced to participate. People with something to hide will always be able to find a place to communicate beyond the reaches of such surveillance.

This makes government backdoors not only an unwelcome intrusion, but also entirely pointless.
You can be critical of the abuses of power that exist in the police force without resorting to hyperbole like "they have the legal right to kill you for any reason during the encounter." They most certainly do not legally have that right, and that's one reason it's reported on so heavily when people are shot by cops.
> Governments are trying to game the world to maximum GDP all the time, but what on offer is mostly garbage and enough people turning down all offers forces them to rethink the total economy or (since they are simple folk,) go into recession. Recession is supposed to be terrible, but isn't it actually better than the fast road to a life in an inescapable mall?

Agreed. I like your viewpoint. Time to opt out?
Farmers are financially not that well off and a big share of population in India is farmers. There is already provision of prosecuting farmers in law, but no administration wants to punish the relatively poor + electorally important farmers by enforcing the laws.
"Plan to Throw One Away" is a classic bit of Fred Brooks advice.

https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs5500f14/Notes/Prototyping1/plan...
Well this may be a controversial stance, but her baby passed at birth. There was no maternity leave to take any more.

What there was to take maybe was a bereavement leave.
Yes I suppose adding a cache breaker query string will trigger a true network download that can be compared.

Although if the network hasn't changed much the true and simulated should be very similar where would you really know if its a real or simulated request.
So here's something I'm having a hard time finding. As a musician, I have a stomp box board. A lot of my effects are digital and reprogrammable. I'd love to to just "keep them all connected" to a usb hub, then connect a single usb cable back to my phone or computer.

When doing so, I instantly introduce ground loops. MIDI gets around this by having opto-isolation as part of the spec, but MIDI-over-USB of course negates this. I would love to have a USB hub that was opto-isolated for both power, data, and ground!
Sometimes that infrastructure is only worth pennies due to associated debts, and restrictions that governments impose on laying off unproductive workers.
She was given conflicting info on if her leave would be 6 or 8 weeks. Ended up being 8. Baby died an hour after birth, so leave was cut from the 8 weeks to 6 due to no longer having baby-mommy bonding. No mention of time off for mourning. The company has now amended their policy to 16 weeks for birth and adoption, so this case would have been covered.
I've been using the APU2 platform for a home network router and can strongly recommend it. I especially like the open source firmware (coreboot) with frequent, signed releases. Wireless performance on OpenBSD was lackluster, so I'm back to running Debian for 802.11. Performance is strong even at full WAN bandwidth capacity of 400 Mbps.
With Kubernetes and deployments simply:

kubectl rollout undo deployment/$DEPLOYMENT
This is an important point, and I'll (re)state it: the pieces have to be modular, AND the "glue" has to afford that modularity.
PS - regarding the actual switch. Agreed.

This instrument was of a poor UI. One switch was in the front, the other in the back.

Still, this was a regulated contract laboratory with cert's.

Upon discovery - they did perform corrective actions and such.

As for "in school" - oh yeah. It's a wild wild west sort of situation. Custom hardware (with who knows what thought being given) and software that someone wrote years ago (and having zero documentation and zero standard coding practices observed).
I try to tithe, or give away, 10% of my earnings. The Bible teaches tithing as good practice. For me the 10% is just a guide. The money I give away is split between my church and individuals/organisations working with the poor. I must say that doing this gives me much joy. Even though I am only giving away little by our standards this can be a lot in other parts of the world.
If you say so. To me kubernetes wishes it was an operating sytem.

It just puts an opaque YML fronted on a bunch of stuff I already know how to install configure and troubleshoot myself: firewalls proxies, web servers etc...

It dawned on me that people probably use it because they haven't done much sysadmin, but they want to deploy production systems.

As a sysadmin/programmer of 20+ years (what full stack used to mean I guess) it just mystifies me why someone would want to layer a barely documented front end on top of their infrastructure.

To me k8 feels kind of like a monster hybridization of cpanel & webshpere.
GNOME Web (aka Epiphany)¹ does use WebKitGTK², but Falkon³ uses QtWebEngine⁴, which is based on Chromium. Qt integrates "the layer rendering of Chromium directly into the OpenGL scene graph of Qt Quick" and
does "not containing all of Chrome/Chromium:

- Binary files are stripped out

- Auxiliary services that talk to Google platforms are stripped out

- The codebase is modularized to allow use of system libraries like OpenSSL"

So Falkon is not like Opera and this new Edge which use almost everything from Chromium, including the app shell, but it's web engine is Chromium.

1: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web/

2: https://webkitgtk.org/

3: https://www.falkon.org/

4: https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine
>Since his arrest, Mr. Mottor has maintained a clean driving record. He is still paying off the roughly $30,000 he accrued in fines, court fees and legal bills.

Wow..... this man was exonerated. Is the NYT pulling a fast one on me? Is this article not the whole story?