skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that but I think that the economic objection doesn't carry much weight: I guess that Catalonya paid its own share of the infrastructure of the other regions of Spain. Same thing with Brexit: the EU benefited from having the UK in the Union (money and not only that) and viceversa. Then the UK voted to go and they go (well, maybe, the way they're handling it is so weird.)

I think it ends up to what people living in a part of a country / union want to do, if they want to be one or not. My impression from far away was that the last time they had a kind of vote in Catalonya it was like about half of the people living there wanted to secede and half didn't. Probably not enough given the circumstances but I'd like to live in a place with clear procedures for secessions. I'm not (most of us don't) even if the EU has them for its member countries.
Campaign financing is illegal in most of the first world. In the US there have even been multiple supreme court rules on the subject.
Salesforce is (among other things) basically a cloud SaaS version of Access. And people pay a lot of money for it. See my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21403393
What is "ignorant" is pointing to the prison conditions of the poor and relatively unknown mass of prisoners and then asserting that we should have expected the same thing for Jeffrey Epstein. He was worth hundreds of millions of dollars (allegedly, at least), and when people of that level of wealth are imprisoned at all, it is at some Club Fed facility where they're relatively comfortable and well protected. In fact, we already have an example of how people like Jeffrey Epstein are usually treated in federal prison, because he himself served a stint in one after his 2008 plea deal, and it was nothing like the parade of horrors we are now constantly told is just par for the course for prisoners like him.
The physics work out very differently because a lot of different wavelengths, some invisible are absorbed by the atmosphere (co2 and other absorbers) before and after reflecting off the ground. Sunshade designs have been considered viable by expert reviews. Main obstacle has been considered the cost of launching them to L1 estimated at a few trillion dollars. Spacex superheavy system is predicted to shrink that to a few billion dollars - a week or some of the global military budget.
It would also need much thicker reflecting material on the ground / at sea to cope with weathering, tearing and pollution. Space is mainly very empty, the shades can be made from surprisingly light materials, and as I described before, the whole thing can be controllable to react to weather events. On ground installations take time an effort to alter.
>It would never, ever have occurred to me to attend office hours just to get to know my professors. Woulda seemed pretty dickish, actually. But it's normal and expected and confers all kinds of advantages. Go figure.

I wouldn't necessarily say that people go to office hours just to get to know their professors, that would be presumptuous. What people do do is go when they are temporarily stuck on a concept, or want to work through a problem in the exercises, or when developing an idea for a paper. All temporary, normal steps in the process, that most students could get by on their own, or by working in a group with other students or the TA. Privileged students feel comfortable going all the way to the professor for help (even just a little help), in a way that less privileged students don't seem to.
Exactly this.

It's much easier today for someone who isn't a technologist to go and set up a website on wordpress or whatever or create a podcast or do whatever they'd like. Or put up videos on Youtube. Not to mention being able to easily self-publish a book.

My RSS reader (inoreader) is full of things like that. Even inoreader itself is independent. Lots of the podcasts I listen to are like that too. Physical Attraction, The Internet History Podcast and all sorts of things are just set up by one person who wants to do it. A friend of mine who is a writer has an amazingly professional sounding podcast.

There is just so much more stuff out there that this can be swamped. Also people who do it well often get pulled into larger organisations and are less independent.
Can Computers Prove Theorems?
yeah, these tech giants are constantly hiring tons of people and snapping up every interesting startup that rolls along in a desperate bid to turn money into more profitable products

Although I do wish Apple would buy some AAA game studios and make some AAA-quality games for their platforms..
god forbid you embed an sql query in the only place it's called

-gasps-
Im scared of such arguments. And im telling you as a libertarian.
No, private companies should be regulated and shareholders cant be the only voice to be heard.
I mean, what if starbucks shareholders decide that, lets say, african americans are no longer allowed to buy coffe on their shops. Would it be ok to allow it?
In my experience moving from a culture that's miserable for you can make all the difference. I have lived in places that were night and day from where I am now and want to get back but cannot find a sustainable way.

If you are moving from Ohio to Indiana or from one town to another where you are then sure not much will change. But I don't think a lot of people realize how different societies and priorities are outside their bubbles. Where I am is the worst sort of bubble culturally and socially I could possibly be in for my mental health. Completely opposite to my core values. But desire isn't enough to "move". You need health, money, assistance.
That's an interesting story re: early twitter. Are you certain a MySQL SLA-level support contract would have solved their scalability issues? My understanding is that it was high volume of highly followed participants that led to congestion. I.e. a design problem. Eventually solved by caching and fanning out replicated tweet data to all followers.

To see the issues around cloud and open source right now, you only have to look at who's winning: enterprise consultants such as Dell EMC, HPe, Accenture, IBM, etc.

They are the ones pushing broad K8S adoption at the edge. And in the next generation it will probably come down to a new crop of ISVs to solve issues around data portability, vendor lock-in, security, pricing arbitrage, and training.
You'll notice that I didn't we came out of it in a single year. I was saying that the factors that contributed to the Little Ice Age would have stopped having an influence by 1950.
We already regulate companies through laws. Pass the appropriate laws! The alternative is that we hope for companies to self-regulate, which may or may not align with what's good for society.
California Is Becoming Unlivable
You can ignore these technologies, and nobody forces you to read articles like this, and it's pretty easy to do.
Hey! Thanks for checking my app out. All of things you listed above happens a lot you see SaaS companies being sold out all the time I am aware of that.

Micro CRM is my very first bootstrapped product and I understand your concerns. My goal with this project and everything else I have in mind is not to sellout eventually but to create solutions for people that need them and make a living that way.

At the end of day creating a SaaS, or even you, the user deciding to use my app is a gamble. if you believe this product is the right fit for you I would be delighted to have you as a customer. If not I will gladly take any feedback you will have
They are a small group in the overall population but not at elite schools.
>You are begging the question

I would like to think, using the autobahn as an argument to make the point that parent's post wasn't as self-evident as it could appear. I agree the autobahn has it's own value judgement to be discussed if one so wishes.
Retiree robot wars
Nice edit

Edit: I don't debate publicly with those who change their arguments after posting and don't call it out
np, I have yet to test it outdoors.
As much as I'm not a fan of celebrity politicians, the situation you describe sounds pretty democratic.
Why Stoics Gamble on Virtue
A new Li-Ion design in principle would allow EVs and other batteries to be charged 80% in ten minutes, but:

1) its early days

2) deployment at scale of a system which heats batteries internally to 60C has to be tested and understood: heat has to dissipate. This is not a "no cost" change, either in the bill of materials, or the physical engineering of battery systems and containment

3) it is however very cool! (ha) I read a lot of EV websites and a hot (ha) topic is how hard it is getting to plug into public chargepoints because the population of EV owners is rising faster than the deployment of charging stations.
Reflecting on the Last Decade: Things We Got Right and Wrong
Show HN: A minimal Fortran TCP client and server
Every which way is considered because that's what humans do. Everyone wants to be the guy who came up with an original theory to show how clever they are.

Your vague “internal job” accusation is no exception to this.
First we do not agree on free education. I believe that's a good thing.

Now, what Macron's government did wrong with research and higher education is: literally everything they did about it. The switch to high tuition as you said (especially given that it was only for foreigners, which I consider racist, and anyway the Conseil Constitutionnel recently found this measure unconstitutional). Parcoursup was a very bad decision: it is poorly designed, it is much worse than the previous system for university admissions for obvious algorithmic reasons that my undergrad students can spot (but that Villani apparently can't?), and it also does not solve the actual problem which is the lack of universities and professors. There is also the way they force universities to merge by making funding conditional to merger, this comes at high cost for no clear benefits (except for maybe jumping a _few_ places in the Shanghai university ranking, which is pure bullshit). There is the way they decided to fund public research: almost exclusively via calls for project, which is a very very inefficient wqy of distributing money as everyone has to work for month to make application and less than 10% of applicants are actually funded so more than 90% of all this work is done for next to nothing, and in addition to that the money is very badly distributed with very rich man that have so much money they don't even know how to spend it and a majority of labs where it becomes difficult to do any research at all. Their funding policy also force universities to cut there spending which is mostly salaries, meaning not replacing professors who retires for example, which means even less professors while there is more and more students (and that was forseeable, they all were born around two decades ago and have been through primary and middle and high school, we saw them coming). I could continue but I'm on my mobile phone so I will stop there.
My take away from this is privilege is just code for what they term in the corporate world as "soft skills". Some students have access to programs, or mentors that teach them how to maximize inter-personal relationships and build good problem solving skills outside of the core course work they'll need to study for.

I realize this is kind of off topic, but there's something else I notice when I tag along with recruiters to schools. Even though recruiters sometimes attempt to recruit at "non-elite" schools, or whatever you want to call them, they are always unable to successfully recruit candidates in the numbers they need to make it worthwhile. "Maybe it'll be be better next year, but doubtful" they say. I've seen it. The students are definitely hungry and passionate for landing a job in tech at these schools, even asking us what they need to do. Yet they just don't seem to know-how to prepare and be successful at the interviews. We try to coach them, but we also have other schools to visit and we only have so much time. I mostly lay the blame on these schools though and not the students.
I was reminded of Tim Berners-Lee's opinion on new TLDs since Google recently announced opening the .new TLD to the public.

IMO, as long as the domain _looks_ like a web URL and is memorable then it is good for The Web (tm). Though, I would prefer that control over TLDs would be distributed rather than be in the hands of select large tech companies.
No, just the ones that serve as alternatives to the public ones. Obviously after-school programs, while potentially leading to some of the same problems, would be a much more complicated question.
> user-programmable externally to any given application

I think this is why it reminded me of TCL, specifically the "expect" command that can script apps that know nothing about it. From the Wikipedia page, the TCL Expect extension: "automates interactions with programs that expose a text terminal interface".

So how I imagine this "Emacs as an OS" paradigm you're describing, is that it mediates interactions with any and all apps that expose a text input/edit interface, to allow programmatic customizations.

Like I'd love to script my own shortcuts for Firefox (or other apps) - possibly with multiple steps, taking input from some config file, or sending a link to another app.. Or, as you mentioned, Emmet-style expansions that work in any input field or textarea..
I mean they did. The actual business we are talking about was started the way you suggest, and was then destroyed by a vindictive billionaire, and is now being (apparently) mismanaged by a bunch of other rich people.

Is your premise that the journalists have no right to be mad at what they perceive as an unjust wielding of economic power?
I am not saying I will implement every single feature people request but I will take any feedback my customers give me. I will continue working on Micro CRM and provide updates and fix bugs.

All I'm trying to do here is build a app that people will use and be happy with.
No. We have the civil rights act of 1964.
> It some kind of sense to me that the noisiest customers are those paying less, even if they're only making up something like 20% of actual MRR.

Yep. Another factor is Checkbot covers a big range of website problems where the fixes for each vary a lot (where it's not possible to determine the source via web crawling) so noisy customers can have complex requests.

For example, a bad redirect could be coming from Apache, Nginx, WordPress or cPanel settings. I get a lot of messages where someone is convinced Checkbot is wrong when it's actually correct too (e.g. people convinced their HTML is valid when it's not) which can generate bad reviews if you're not careful.

> Are a lot of the support requests related to yearly billing or do you mean a quarterly option would theoretically preempt those kinds of requests?

I mean each payment can prompt a support request so the more spread out the payments the less support requests. They're not super common, but they build up the more customers you get and I feel a sense of urgency to handle requests to do with payments.

I think the longer billing periods let people relax more with evaluating the product too e.g. you're not thinking "I need to use this a lot right now because I've only got 30 days to decide if I use it enough to keep paying or not".

> Really great extension, site and all-around product, by the way.

Thanks, appreciated. :)
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Gawker was a $200M company taking on a much smaller person until Thiel got involved. He used their own strategy of outspending the other side against them, and they decided to die on a hill of tabloid gossip rather than real news.

Regardless if Deadspin did so well then it would continue doing so in the years since the lawsuit.
Are you kidding me? The connection between madrid and barcelona came after madrid and sevilla (very logical in an economical sense). The highways are payed by us (by tolls) thanks to president Pujol and his friends (irony). Only tolls in rich regions. Our trains (renfe) lack a total need of investment for years. Catalunya gives more money to the rest of Spain than it receives, because it’s one of the economic motors of Spain. We are self sufficient.

Yes I see the problem as you point out, we pay too many things, Spain cannot afford losing us. That’s the only reason you want to keep us, economic matters. At least talk about other reasons to keep us united, not just money. It’s not just about money! It’s culture, it’s many years of oppresion, of not letting a nation decide it’s laws... like the ‘estatut’. it’s not reconizing dictatorships that have hurt so much Catalan culture... a lot of people don’t feel any attachment to Spain, we do not share the government attitude, culture, language... Spain has to learn it’s a multicultural country, Spanish is not the only language...
That’s a really good point. I can’t imagine someone’s will to live staying strong if they’re in constant severe pain from accumulated bone/joint/nerve issues.

My dad lead a VERY active lifestyle - triathlons, squash, swimming, working on building sites, etc. What reward did he get for all that exercise and activity? Replacement hips, painful knees and developing spinal issues (spinal stenosis I think, but can’t quite remember off the top of my head) that he’s been told to live with until he can’t stand the pain anymore because surgery is incredibly risky and might not help or make things worse.

He does have great cardiovascular health though and he still works at his own business, learned how to use an iPhone, etc. Still walks a ridiculous number of steps a day that puts me to shame. The mechanical issues do make it more difficult than it used to be for him though.
> Twitter is a public company.

Correction: Twitter is a corporation with publicly-traded equity.

A "public company" isn't the same as a "public good" or controlled by government and regulated as if it were owned by the entire republic
> Everything now fits as ‘terrorism’ thanks to some changes in the law.

That ship sailed when the US government classified an attack on a military ship in a conflict zone as terrorism. I mean WTF!

These days I read terrorism as "things X government doesn't like". You'll be surprised of how much sense news makes.
Which kind of contribution do you suppose open source maintainers prefer: cash or code?
Note that I said "[t]he nation of Spain", not the "rulers" of Spain. It's exactly the same as in US: in both cases, the nations codified the rules through the constitution they made the law. If anything, it is more of the case with Americans who are given down rules from above: the American constitution was created and voted into the law by the representatives of the people, while in Spain, the people themselves voted the current constitution into the law through public referendum.
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True, when I think about what I've seen, what people are building with Access and what people are building with Salesforce, there's a lot of overlap.
There were downed power lines in West Marin, near Woodacre. Tons of dry fuel out there, and a transmission line runs through the area: https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/maps/infrastructure/3P_Mid.pdf

While I don't support the outage or PG&E's analysis, their argument is likely that they had to shut down a few key sites in Central / Eastern CA, and thus they couldn't figure out how to power the Bay Area. "Stupid isn't illegal."

Props to contacting the State. This situation won't get any better if there's no pressure on them. Marin has independence with respect to water, perhaps they'll get power, too, somehow.
Carmakers and repair shops clash as automation upends aftermarket
> The government restricting the supply of opioid painkillers has only served to push those who need them into the black market

This is a pretty shallow summary of the actual state of affairs. Yes, people who need drugs have been forced into the black market. But so have people who are addicts. Legalizing might or might not help, but it doesn’t help to pretend that everyone is a chronic pain sufferer.

The reality is that for decades many people were handed highly addictive painkillers for relatively minor pain (and for too long for acute pain). The end result is an epidemic of addiction. Those addictions didn’t evaporate when doctors started to reduce the frequency of opiate prescriptions. Hence the shocking reality that “opioid overdoses have increased as opioid prescriptions have decreased.” Well, yeah. A bunch of addicts have turned from Oxycodone to heroin.
It’s actually impressive. I guess it’s even possible a lot of it is internal jargon that I just do not understand.
Poor kids at elite prep schools is what do you think 2% of their enrollment? So 2% is not small, fair enough.

And private preparatory schools (much less elite prep schools) educate far less than 1% of the student population in the US. But let's go crazy over the top just to avoid nitpicking and claim it's as much as 1%.

1% * 2% = .02%

Explain again why they need special consideration and are statistically legitimate to analyze and make claims regarding?
> I think the answer is not to retire and go rot in a chair while taking 5 naps a day.

Yeah agreed. I think the key to retirement - both early and standard aged - is that you don't stop doing stuff. You just get to do the stuff you really want to be doing. If all you do for the remainder of your life is park yourself on the couch and watch TV, yeah of course your both mental and physical health is going to decline.
Have you considered that maybe it has been in fact well received by pedestrians?
I'm hoping that was sarcasm...

(The GP, not the parent.)
I’m one of the new co-owners. All of us are longtime subscribers. This is about love for the magazine and its mission first and last. We’re not going to change Nautilus. We just want to get it into the hands of many more people. We do think we can navigate Nautilus to a sustainable place for the long haul; the market is there and the product is fabulous. We just need to operate it precisely and keep investing in great writing, editing, and art. Nothing fancy, just running it right and for the right reasons.
> A better analogy would be a certain tax rate for "cars" and another lower one for "trucks"

That would be a pretty poor analogy since taxes are mandatory and imposed by the government.

Nobody should feel obligated to use Twitter.

You can't just decide to create an alternative tax system, but you're definitely free to build your own microblogging / social network.
"He simply doesn't care about the people being affected by those policies" - I'm pretty sure he's directly affected by LGBTQ policies but as you said, in his calculus, the pros outweigh the cons.
But presumably, were this discussion taking place in 1963, there would be someone saying:

<company> will do whatever the hell it wants on its own property and has no obligation to listen to anyone except the voice of 51% of its shareholders.
Barstool has noticeably more coverage of actual sports and much less divisive political and cultural content. Low-brow/college humor is very different than left vs right politicking. It is not surprising that you will suffer audience loss when picking one side of the battle.
> That being said, attacking the Indians doesn't really jive with their political aims.

It does make sense for China’s geopolitical aims, and currying favor with China while but implicating them is quite in line with DPRK interests.

> CIA makes way more sense.

CIA attacking India right now makes no sense, whatever the policy on their nuclear program might have been in the past, but then US foreign policy is such a complete mess right now that “makes no sense ” isn't really a strong argument against it being true.