skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>the level of asylum seekers and other migrants was not substantially different from the past couple decades.

What's your source for this? This site[1] indicates otherwise (even the 10-year chart shows a huge growth in applications). And this article[2] states 800,000 people detained so far this year. I'm sure ICE and CBP's infrastructure and processes were never meant to handle populations of this size. Also, note that in [2] many of these people are asylum shopping.

>>>We are setting a terrible precedent on the international stage for how people fleeing danger are treated.

The precedent has already been set: impoverished people the world over know that if they are willing to accept some risk, they can lie their way into the US and get free stuff. People are kidnapping kids so they can pretend they are family. Migrants from central Africa have NGOs providing them with French-language documents on not cooperating with ICE or the US government. These people are buying plane tickets to Brazil, then taking buses ALLLLLL the way up Central America (lots of places to stop and apply for asylum there) so they can illegally cross the border into the US. Who is paying the salaries for these NGOs? And WHY? Those are the hard questions that aren't being asked. The narrative is one that appeals to empathy in order to obscure deeper issues.

Look at this article[4]. It tries to paint a picture that the rights of African migrants are somehow being infringed upon because Mexico is not enabling them to move onward to the US. But this is specifically discouraged once you are out of your country of origin and no longer in immediate danger.[5] So again, ask yourself, why is this narrative being pushed? And why now?

[1]https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/asylum-applicatio...

[2]https://www.voanews.com/usa/immigration/us-bound-migrants-as...

[3]https://youtu.be/mJlOmMj21uM

[4]https://prospect.org/power/african-asylum-seekers-u.s.-stuck...

[5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee#Restriction_of_onward_...
> IRC is incredibly user hostile and for even a technical user is intimidating, complex, and nonobvious.

When I started using IRC in the 1990s it was full of college freshmen flirting. Most of them were not CS majors or otherwise technically adept. I really don't think it's "intimidating, complex, and nonobvious" in a way that makes people not use it. It just doesn't have images or history, that's all.

There are aspects of IRC that are nonobvious, but that's true of any software, including Slack (and, I assume, Discord), and you don't have to know them to start using it.
Why is every startup a bank these days?
im all for the absolute beating this article is taking. what confuses me if why soooo many equally bad if not worse articles make it through here without a scratch
> I feel you're misrepresenting what the author actually said

There's literally a section called 'Problems with IRC that Slack solves'. And there's no 'but...' at the end of that section. It's just a list of things Slack solves. Maybe that's why people want to use it? It solves their problems?

> The author enumerates arguments (technical and not so technical) to support his thesis. You've ignored them all.

I think you've misread my comment or the thread. I wasn't providing a critique of their points... I was responding to the idea that they were equating them. They weren't - as you said, they have a list of ways they thinks IRC is better, and a list of ways they think Slack is better. So they weren't equating them.
Hosts are punished. I have had it happen to me when I had an unintentional overbooking on a property I owned.
Global birth rates going below replacement level (as in Europe, but not in many other places in the world) would be the best news ever.

> While the world is expected to add more than 3 billion people by 2100, according to the United Nations, that’ll likely be the high point. Falling fertility rates and aging populations will mean serious challenges that will be felt more acutely in some places than others.

Right now, it is well beyond any sustainable level (CO2, habitat, pollution). More people, and more living at higher standards (and it would be inhumane). Sure, we can eat vegan, and have solar panels, but it is not enough (there is a huge baseline consumption and waste generation).

How? Higher education for women and easy (free, educated, socially approved) access to education, especially in poor countries.

Often I hear "oh, but in 1970s people were afraid that the current population would be too much, and you see - they were wrong!". Sadly, in the last 50 years, we wiped most animals. And brought the plastic mayhem.

Vide: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity...
I managed RocketChat. It was pretty easy, but we weren't stressing it.
I do manage an instance of rocket.chat, and I am no longer a fan.
> Lots of property owners goes to great extends to make property look way better, bigger, nicer than it really is

As does every single hotel ever in existence.
The article enumerates reasons why Slack is not designed or suited for the role in question.
Many projects prefer a limited history for interactive chats.
I hate when my experience differs from others. I like to have the same experiences as everyone else because we are all the same.
I actually had this question earlier today.

Given a config file per 'environment', with environment being an arbitrary identifier, what benefit do environment variables have over it? I've read some docs on 12 factor apps looking for an answer but didn't really find anything. Just curious what I'm overlooking
I'm not sure I follow concretely what is meant by "imagine a better democracy." Does it involve stopping the unjust outcomes (by persuasion, influence, or force) or just advocating a new constitutional convention at some point? And how do we make it better / "optimize for empathy" - do we change how votes are allocated and weighted? Do we enshrine empathy as a constitutional principle and ask judges to stop unempathetic laws?

Are the protesters in Hong Kong imagining a new democracy that optimizes for empathy? Did the plaintiffs in Obergefell do so? What about the soldiers at Normandy?

Is refusing to work for employers that sell to ICE part of imagining a better democracy?
I worry that this promotes the data architecture philosophy that is currently in vogue in tech companies, but is actually a bad fit for many traditional enterprises. Most of the time, data architecture needed depends on use case.

Tech/web companies deal with massive amounts of unstructured/semi-structured data ingested at a fast clip, so the architectural thinking here works.

However I would argue that many traditional enterprises whose major sources of data are primarily highly structured (SQL databases), a lake is actually not needed.

A young data engineer working in a traditional enterprise, enamored with the idea of data lakes say, might try to ETL SQL databases into an object store (add RBAC etc.) only to rebuild it back out into a data warehouse. This will almost always turn out to be the wrong approach.

The simpler and more manageable approach is actually to federate existing databases, add cataloging etc. and not even use a data lake at all.
The spammers were using unidentified nicks. The network has channel mode 'r', that is used for only allowing identified nicks into the channel.

I'm not really a fan of channel mode 'r' for support channels. Someone might join the channel for a simple question or two, they get the answers and never return. Having to register a nickname and check email can be a bit annoying for some people.

The network also has user mode 'R' that blocks messages from unidentified users.

They added a spam filter into the IRCd over a year ago.

https://freenode.net/kb/answer/channelmodes

https://freenode.net/kb/answer/usermodes

https://freenode.net/news/spamfilter
So, what about making the company return that venture funding money to boot?

I can think of several YC-funded companies pretty much raping our privacy and YC does nothing to fix that.
Pilots make 6 figures, don't they?
They announced a while ago that they were getting out of the "distributed books as files" (aka buying ebooks and getting the files on members.oreilly.com) game, and doubling down on the "subscription service to consume books online" game (aka Safari). This is just another step in that process. See https://www.thebookseller.com/futurebook/why-oreilly-media-n... for the original announcement.
GCHQ marks 100 years by unveiling details of wartime spy work
And we as adults have the responsibility of educating those future generations by speaking that truth to power. I try to do my part, FWIW.
The pdf command printed a Wikipedia link to the resume page. Are you making a joke (that I’m not getting)? Or is this a bug?
Seems like operating systems should supply an API for trigger words and third party apps. Problem with Apple is 90% would instantly flock to Google just because how useless Siri is.
Expedia did that? That's great. I've always avoided them and their competitors and bought directly from the airlines because I was afraid if something went wrong I would get better service that way.
Sleep on an incline - use bed risers that raise the head of the bed 4-6 inches.

You’ll sleep better.
Exactly. This is just like the "we have a shortage of truck drivers" non-problem. What we have is a shortage of people willing to pay a bunch of up-front costs for a job with relatively low pay, poor work-life balance, and a lot less prestige than it used to have. If airlines paid more and treated pilots better, the shortage would disappear.

That being said, airline margins these days are so tight that it wouldn't surprise me to start seeing pushes for alternatives to raising pilot compensation. Anything from remote piloting and self-flying aircraft to lowering entry requirements is probably being discussed in board rooms right now.
That sounds pretty cool. Did you all have your own separate physical layer just for military too, or did you use the same physical layer as the civilian world?
When do YC Fall Hackathon invitations go out?
> Applications close on 10/25/19 at 11:59PM PST. We’ll send out the first round of acceptances shortly afterward.

Has anyone received any emails regarding the fall hackathon?
iOS 13.2 Is Overzealously Killing Apps in the Background
Edit: oops, can't link directly to pdf :)
Why would you want to get around your presumed 'finite capacity of the atmosphere to absorb CO2'?

What does your comment even mean?
Seriously...
Is there some problem with the atmosphere being unable to 'absorb' CO2?

Sometimes I think there are bots populating this site that randomly blurt out something about CO2 every few minutes even when the comment makes no sense.
Config also benefits from review and version control, and it's inconvenient to use multiple systems for these. It's been working out well for us to store secrets encrypted with public key crypto alongside source, or in a deployment repository using the same source control. The private key is inserted into the infrastructure as a K8s secret.
This is a great explanation of a nuance I didn’t appreciate before. Thanks!
So if this mechanism exists, wouldn't that point to temperatures rising very fast in the past as well?
Ok I probably should have phrased that as "rarely" instead of "never". There are, after all, always exceptions...
I think it makes more sense. If you just say "I am at the airbnb", it's confusing. Maybe they don't know what unit you're talking about. If you say "guest of blah blah" there is some clarity. Eg. even if they don't know their neighbors, it's likely that the host's name is at least on the buzzer or mailbox. And if you remember your host's name, you may know which buzzer to hit at check-in, for example.
I see you as the myopic here; by pretending you only have to the long term stuff (votes, campaing) and that the short term stuff doesn't matter or shouldn't be done (like the employees complaining in this case) like these kind of protests live in a vacuum; when artists in the 50s refused to play in segregated crowds you think they didn't ALSO advocate for the long term stuff like voting for congressmen in favor of less racism? Absolutely nothing lives in a vacuum, and creating noise against ICE like they are doing in this case can help even more than doing the politics part themselves, because the exposure they get influences other people reading such news.
My wife uses thelounge (self-hosted instance) as a progressive web application on her Android phone. It supports push notifications and file uploads. Before this, she used IRC Cloud, which also has a convenient mobile application with those features.

As for myself, I use Weechat-Android (for about 6 years now) and am very happy with that on my Android phone. It uses a websocket with SSL, so I get notifications and it uses very little battery (or data).
> HN is typically responsive to jokes that are on topic, technical in nature, and/or make a good point.

Also jokes that others can use as a launching point to nerd out about something.

E.g., I once made a joke about how the ships in the old days were some of the most efficient forms of transportation ever, because they got thousands of miles per galleon.

dredmorbius responded [1] with a short essay on the history of marine propulsion over the last couple of centuries, and how sail has many advantages over powered ships. Many others jumped in with long, thoughtful, well documented posts full of naval nerdery.

My joke got about 70 points, probably because people appreciated the responses.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7736579
Loneliness During Old Age
Agreed. The worst thing about all these * as a service things it that you're locked in to a single client for that service and many of them have awful and annoying UI's. The netflix UI isn't great, the audible one is abominable, the google music one is very bare bones and they don't care because they have a monopoly on the content. There is no incentive to improve, they have to be just good enough.

Having many IRC clients is a good thing because I can have the experience I want, not the experience someone else wants me to have.
Eliminate caffeine. Increase consumption of animal products. My sleep quality improved significantly after switching to a 90% carnivore diet.
Scylla [1] for instance is a C++ rewrite and a drop-in replacement of JVM-based Cassandra, and from what I've read is fairly stable and performs much faster.

[1] https://www.scylladb.com/
I'm very interested. Commenting as reminder to check this later.
The California haters are back. And once again, they get us all wrong
My experience is the exact opposite. There is a culture of laziness and most offices are carried by a handful of outstanding people and propped up by significant foreign investment.

The difference with Israel, specifically in regards to hacking, is purely the amount of government support and protection independent actors receive for things that might otherwise be considered nefarious in other countries.
Interesting responses. Thanks!
> despite scientific evidence to the contrary?

Science says that there are two main genders: XX (female) and XY (male), with other disorders that are quite rare (e.g. XXY, XYY, etc.). Anything else are mental disorders and should be treated as such, not cave in to the latest fad of the day.
I know your being sarcastic, but I would agree with most of your comment. I also have purchased my own piece of swampland/temperate rain forest in northern Canada, just waiting for the earth to warm up a bit now. I want to know how people can be so arrogant to think we can stop global warming, let alone reverse it, California is burning in November,the artic is melting, so it's time to stop wasting effort on such foolish ideas and accept the inevitable. It's time to focus our efforts on planning and preparing for a warmer earth and all the problems that come from that.
Capitalism is nothing but an economic system where you own the means to production. There is no inherent morality.

Nobody has an issue with you making choices and voting with your dollars. The issue is forcing those choices on everyone else (as in a business, especially as a non-owner) through your own interpretation of morality.
Is that for gerd/acid reflux type of affections or it is generally better?
Other OSs still have the advantage of, well, working in ways that aren't dreamed up by keyboard-only terminal jockeys who've only ever had GUI's described to them. I mean seriously, just look at the .desktop spec, or really any FreeDesktop.org spec, and tell me the person who wrote it had ever in their life used the GUI as anything other than a really fancy tmux.
>How can you 'store' anything in something as ephemeral as environment variables? Where do these environment variables come from? When are they set?

Set at build time. They come from a build config file/script as part of the build. They're not perfect, but just about every tool ever made has a way of understanding environment variables - the same can't be said for any given config file.

Here's a real world example: I want one source of truth for my build configuration, but my build itself pulls together libraries and binaries in a number of different languages and build systems. How would you handle that with anything but environment variables and a master shell script?
Spark is still potentially faster for SQL-like workloads due to the existence of a query optimizer. Dask works at a different level of abstraction and does not have a query optimizer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes
I wonder how far away you need to be from that thing to survive its last few seconds. Is a few million miles and maybe a good-sized moon to hide behind sufficient?
Why? That's like saying the police should cease to function in their enforcement of the law.
I use ZNC with the znc-push module. It supports a ton of different services, but I use it with Pushover. Notifications come in on time even when my phone is deep sleep.
As for my mobile app, I use an app called Palaver on my iPhone.
That is completely dependent on people having an accurate assessment of the situation, and that is rarely the case in the current outrage driven political climate.
I've got nothing to show, therefore no reason to be surveilled.
The point is, people like to claim “immigration good”, but when you dig down into their actions, you find their actual views are heavily influenced by self-serving goals.
I do like IRCCloud, and use it often. But it's not Slack. Slack is one of those things that seems sortof dumb and simple but it just isn't. They've built a very compelling set of features that many of us now just take for granted.
Mattermost is the closest 'freemium' alternative to Slack I've seen.
Most languages have some variant of this where close is equal to variable going unaccessible. C# IDisposable, Python with-statement, Java try/resources, C++ RAII destructors, etc.

None are really as powerful but they come close and cover many use cases.
Because the scammer may be using this as a way to launder money or to extract money from stolen credit cards.

They may not be scamming legitimate bookers, but rather, using the listing for other kinds of scams.
My very cursory understanding of the international legal agreements on this subject don't seem to take that into account. In other words: that problem does not create a legal obligation on the US's part to accommodate them, nor does it put a legal obligation on Mexico or any other intermediate state to facilitate their transfer.
How did you purchase it? I've thought about it myself...
> Answered my own question: up to 85% discount

Isn't Slack's cheapest plan around 8$ per user per month?
"We want to be taken seriously as a Desktop OS!"

"Hey, I have a problem with your product..."

"It was FREE! Why are you complaining!?"

--Why Linux Desktop will never be a serious contender, part 12.
There are several richer IRC clients; the author of this article suggests https://thelounge.chat/ in a later article about IRC.
I'm away from a mac and too lazy to do this, but have you tried writing a little program to poll the audio configuration? Device name, number of channels, sample rate, etc.

It could be Chrome is just checking the device configuration for input/output at the same time (it needs the latter for the audio APIs) and the service might be pinging that as "microphone activity" when really they're just checking the available devices and their settings.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondestructive_testing
Norway’s top personal tax rate is similar to the US (39%, which is less than what some people pay in high cost of living states here).

The difference, as I’m sure you already know, is state oil revenue, and that can’t last forever even with sovereign wealth funds.
Fortran offers a better developer experience overall for Numerical applications yes. But it is still very foot shootable as I remember - point a pointer at allocatable and the fun can start. Or make everything inout for convenience and/or performance. But yes, compared to C the defaults are also safer, just don't expect Rust.
I face the opposite dilemma, I enjoy coding, but I’m never fully happy with the result.

I think there is an element of extrinsic motivation vs intrinsic motivation here.

Extrinsic motivation is where there is something external that is driving you to develop software (money, prestige or perhaps a finished product in this example)

Intrinsic motivation is where you motivated to develop software (or whatever) because you want to develop software (no external reasons)

Obviously there is always an element of both present, and there is nothing wrong with either type of motivation.

The thing to consider is that with extrinsic motivation, it changes. You might have to constantly remind yourself about the reasons, or the motivation may disappear entirely at stages.

With intrinsic motivation, your motivation doesn’t change much over time, and people who are motivated intrinsically to do their kind of work usually do well in their field with far less effort than others.

But even for those that are intrinsically motivated to code, there are always parts of it that are just pure toil.
That's absolutely not how it works. People either have valid immigration status and/or citizenship, or they don't. There's no trick to suddenly make people "illegal".
Do you find that junior hires are typically inflexible when it comes to personality and or coding skills? Or are we talking about more experienced hires who shouldn’t need as much investment and resources to get up to par. As a college senior who’s terrible at recruiting, I’m confused about employer expectations in this regard.
Analogies aren’t meant to be 100% perfect. They are meant to provide a framework to understand a problem.
Isn't that just proving my point?

Most people who buy your game aren't going to invest even 10 hours in it or come close to maxing out the AI because they only picked it up because it was 85% off during a Steam sale.

Maybe you'll be able to figure out from Early Access numbers how popular your game is and whether you need to invest in super-awesome AI. But it seems like for most games it would be a waste of effort. More likely it would be retrofitted into an already popular game in a DLC or future patch or something.
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#2015
Stop freaking out. It's just a UI.
The US also has export restrictions on crypto and other tech, which makes this kind of business harder for US companies. Especially with countries that aren’t strong Us allies.

When I worked in the radar business we couldnt just sell them to anyone.
Both https://12factor.net/ and the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Factor_App_methodology credit Heroku developers for formalizing the 12 factor methodology.