skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually think this is a good question and there are arguments on both sides:

pro-lasting: there are plenty of places with buildings that are hundreds of years old that are perfectly fine and useful buildings and there's no really compelling reason to tear them down and rebuild them.

Another argument is that the longer stuff lasts the less you may need to maintain it. Given that maintenance costs are hard to figure out and it's hard to get dedicated budget to keep things going (the present problem in the U.S. w/r to infrastructure for example), it's unlikely that things will be well maintained throughout their potentially useful life. If the stuff just lasts better, it's more likely to have a longer useful life...which is simply cheaper.

pro-replacing: An awful lot of national GDP in many countries comes from construction projects. Keeping a constant turnover in infrastructure and housing keeps huge populations employed with decent paying jobs.

Cities don't always have an infinite utility. The U.S. Rust Belt is an example of many cities that may have outlived their intended utility. This means that populations will migrate to cities with more current utility and the need to rearrange those areas to suit the change in population is important. A fixed or stagnate inner core, that could be replaced with higher density housing, is preferable than simply sprawling out elsewhere.
>The authors of the APSR study—Elizabeth Simas and Scott Clifford of the University of Houston and Justin Kirkland of the University of Virginia—have this kind of dynamic in mind when they write, “Polarization is not a consequence of a lack of empathy among the public, but a product of the biased ways in which we experience empathy.”

That's the nugget. According to the study, it seems that people with high empathy are more often people with high empathy towards their in-group...and a lack of empathy for the out-group. I'd argue that it isn't really empathy at all...just a more emotional form of tribalism.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lyrics+radioactive+the+firm
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I don't think so either ... and SA should never had put that in print. Anyway, there's no argument, just numbers. The measure of 'more radioactive than' is Bq/kg. (Total radiation? who releases those numbers? where's the transparency?)

According to the following article (and a couple I'm not citing), coal fly ash counts are on the order of 250-1000 Bq/kg. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10967-006-6966-1

Specifically, concentrated (fly ash) measures:

"263 to 950 Bq·kg−1 for 238U, from 142 to 605 Bq·kg−1 for 226Ra, from 133 to 428 Bq·kg−1 for 210Pb, from 27 to 68 Bq·kg−1 for 228Ra and from 204 to 382 Bq·kg−1 for 40K"

Anyone who cares to is welcome to cite the Bq/kg numbers for waste from nuclear plants. Go ahead, pick some. I think you'll find they are higher. And most coal doesn't contain any Pu.
You don’t know what you don’t know. There was a UNIX bug that caused the system to crash or execute code just by being fingered.[1]

> Connect to your fingerd daemon and type more than 528 (= 512 + 16) characters (any will do). If your daemon crashes or terminates the connection with no data sent back, you probably have the vulnerability.

[1] http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/projects/vulnerabilities/doves/...
SoftBank's Yahoo Japan and LINE are merging to fend off US tech giants
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along the same lines, red hot chili peppers and halo 2 on Xbox live for me!

also morrowind since somehow I managed to accrue 250+ hours of play time on that despite spending about 16 hours out of every day that I wasn't at school (those days were more like 8-10 hours ಠ_ರೃ) playing halo 2 online.
Really would love a tool like this with support for modern JS/TS repositories
New Half Life Announced by Valve
Mods: The article title styles it as "Line", but LINE style it as "LINE", so I went with that instead :)
If France is part of Europe, then no f’ing way. It’s a nightmare: arbitrary limits on debit cards, large transfers have to be done in person at your specific branch. The security requirements are Byzantine. For example, to get a new pin code, they actually mail you paper, you can do it in a branch. International money transfers require permission (only obtained at your specific branch.) They charge a monthly fee to have a Visa debit card and to get a “Gold” version with higher limits, you have to pay them more. Paper checks are still vastly preferred in France (for paying school fees, etc.) Banking in France is just one step above banking in Korea or China. French bank fees make American fees look positively discount by comparison.

That you have to go into your specific physical branch to do certain things is ridiculous. I can go into any Chase in the US and do anything I could do at my normal “home” branch.

N26 (a German bank) was vastly superior but even that had limitations, especially with moving money around internationally.

The grass is always greener on the other side.
> But even BofA doesn't do things like read your Twitter posts and YouTube comments so they can blackhole your account if you have have the wrong politics.

Yet.
I cannot afford to live anywhere without help and even the poor quality help with mean and resentful family that I have where I am now is going away. I haven't just NOT tried to find alternatives. I've fought and failed for years. Things don't work, you are blamed, and people always betray you. I'm not wanting this end. I didn't choose this. I just will not survive homeless, or in constant stress, and am sick of being emotionally abused by shit people. My quality of life is already so poor I cannot suffer worse. I have reached my coping limit in all ways and there is no help. If I could afford to live on my own sustainably I'd leave this miserable country who's systems ruined my life. All a moot point anyway. There is no love, social support, family, anything. Who wants to live in a world where most people are so terrible anyway to allow this to happen to so many people as long as they get theirs. My cat is the only life I care about anymore and I cannot even ensure her future because I cannot ensure mine. I know how I sound. I am out of options and it enrages me. I know who I am and what I have done...it's everyone else who forgot.
> the chances of them being successfully attacked is zero

Mother nature can successfully attack whole islands.
Empathy has always been morally neutral. Feeling what others do allows you to help them, but it also allows you to manipulate them, or better hurt them. Most of the time it only acts as a way to strengthen existing tribal affiliations.
Did we ever figure out who Mr G worked for?
Only 20 clients? Does that seem low to anybody else?
> My understanding is that bazel is moving away from this, so that you can define toolchains by saying "here is a binary that serves the job of linking/compiling stuff".

How do they ensure determinism in that case? Is it just an easy escape hatch so that new languages can be easily supported, with no actual guarantees of hermeticity?

> The challenge with your idea is that you're basically saying "hey, we should sandbox and introspect <any number of fairly arbitrary and complex binaries> to intercept and modify their filesystem and network (at a minimum) accesses, across any number of versions and uses".

I think my approach would certainly use a syscall whitelist. Any unsupported syscall would be a build failure, and presumably a bug report if it's a legitimate use. I suspect most build commands can get by with a pretty minimal set of syscalls (mainly basic filesystem access). At some point though, if you start supporting more and more syscalls, you start re-implementing VMs/containers, which sucks. This build system only stays simple if people don't try to do a bunch of wacky things with it :)

Network accesses would probably get whitelisted by the user on a rule-by-rule basis for cases like "download these packages", with the outputs treated as always dirty. The tool would be responsible for running efficiently even if no work actually needs to be done.

One weird/hard thing to support would be soft/hard linking. I'm not sure exactly what should be done there, but that might not be needed for early versions.

> Even just handling conditionally rewriting file writes/reads based on guessing whether something is an input or re-used output isn't that easy in general.

I'm not sure I understand this. One thing I should note is that in my scheme, you still have to specify output files for rules--you only get to skip specifying the inputs.
> the idea of someone watching me work just makes me uneasy.

Isn't this nearly universal? Aside from some exhibitionists no one speaks about that "feeling of being watched" in a positive light and there are all sorts of social norms developed around how long it's appropriate to stare at someone, the people that stray beyond these norms are generally labeled as creepy.

There's also the extra visual stimulus of people moving around, headphones don't solve either of these problems.
Ultimate early 2000s combination: Linkin Park and Tribes 2.
The problem is we’ve exploited our ability to tailor our messaging so specifically that people aren’t getting new information.

We’ve seen this before, in a way: when Christianity ruled, no new emotional information or perspective was capable of taking hold.

Our media apparatus is essentially doing the same thing by feeding people the same narrative they grew up on their entire lives.

We have kept thousands of hours of TV shows, video games, and movies, news clips, etc and repeatedly view it. One can mentally exist in 1995 with the Internet and the new couch that feels just as comfy. Our limbic system suggests it anyway.

Look at our politics mired in clinging to the past, sticking to same old tax & drug policies.

The problem is a bunch of nerds who meant well built the panopticon, because they were staring at screens and not considering human history of authoritarian corruption of our emotionally guided agency (humans brains don’t find facts, they engage motor controls and coordinate agency, speaking sounds or doing a mechanical motion of some sort) to focus on the speech we don’t control. Previously religious doctrine, now finance.

Now media corp can beam the exact speech necessary to keep every individual soothed just so. How brilliant.
Beneficiaries of trusts pay income tax on distributions.
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Yeah, because I'm sure the Cayman Islands take enforcing that seriously, and because the IRS has any budget to go after rich people...
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Some countries have a tax on wealth in addition to income tax. (Switzerland for instance, maybe US in a few years)
Sure, I understand that.

But that answer is also tautological, as the answer to "Why do periods and commas go inside quotation marks in MLA style?" is effectively "because it's the MLA style."

Did the MLA style just coincidentally happen to use the same style that was in use by US typesetters pre-typewritter? That seems to be what you suggest.

Or did MLA deliberately follow the older, pre-typewritter practice? That seems far more likely to me, and is somewhat supported by the use of "This placement is traditional in the United States."

You write "there was little need for style guides addressing submissions for publication by persons unfamiliar with typographical practices."

Take "The Chicago Manual of Style" as an example. The first edition, from 1906, and titled "Manual of style, being a compilation of the typographical rules in force at the University of Chicago press, to which are appended specimens of types in use" clearly is not directed towards typewriter use. A copy is at https://archive.org/details/manualofstylebei00univrich . For example, rules 75-77 concern when to set extended quotes in a smaller type. That's just not possible with a typewriter.

So, if there was little need for style guides other than for authors writing with a typewriter, why does the Chicago Manual of Style exist?

Note too that while the Chicago Manual of Style prefers typewritten submissions from authors, it will accept "perfectly clear handwriting" (page 95). That's because "style" includes more than typographical practices.

BTW, the first edition explains why it exists as (emphasis mine):

> As it stands, this Manual is believed to contain a fairly comprehensive, reasonably
harmonious, and wholesomely practical set of work-rules for the aid of those whose duties bring them into direct contact with the Manufacturing Department of The Press. If, in addition to this its main object, this Manual of Style may incidentally prove helpful to other gropers in the labyrinths of typographical style, its purpose will have been abundantly realized.

Remember too that every town had a printing press, if not several. Those typesetters surely want to make things look like what their customers expect - where do they learn those rules?
Nah, I would argue that empathy has never been anything more than that. We have existing names for the “real” empathy you being up too — people call it being two-faced, practicing whataboutism, being callously analytical, being too unempathetic to side with the obviously right side, and so on.
Funny you should say actors. While some people will equate the two, I find Erlang actors easier to reason about than go channels. Though that has everything to do with monitors and links, to tie dependent goroutines/processes together.
4. The lobbying group is not a side, but the field of battle. It may naturally favor a side, but money moves the front.
“Tolerated”
Works really well with podcasts for me. My memory of daily experiences is generally incredibly poor, when I first experienced nearly photographic recall after re-listening to a podcast I almost cried. It's a cruel joke that this capability is in there but I can't seem to activate it on my own.
I've taken to playing certain songs for certain scenarios. My favorite example of such being Blast Off (Human Pyramids) played just as my flight is taking off, that windup taxi and the acceleration to flight.
I've kept that particular song pure specifically because I've captured the essence of traveling/vacation in that 5 minute period.
For what it's worth, I agree with you. I associate installing node and installing LAMP/WAMP with similar levels of "difficulty."

Sure, `http.createServer` is a few more lines of code compared to the equivalent PHP `hello world` but I don't see it as an insurmountable hurdle.
Even though I think you point at a legit source of the issue, it's much more than that - Vancouver has this inherent aspect of isolation, and it's very hard to put one's finger on.

There isn't much of a night life, people are chill, there's a lot of escape to the mountains.

People are just not gregarious, and as so many are transplants (from wherever or E. Canada), then it's just going to stay isolated.

Add to that the near constant rain and lack of other impetus to fire people up (it's like Canada, without the East Coast historical issues), i.e. no Trumps or heavy duty geopolitical fusses ... and it's boring.

That the Chines expat community is of a very distant kind of culture, one in which it's a big jump especially with language skills, makes it even harder. Every time I go to Vancouver I'm kind of shocked at the 'table segregation' - go into any restaurant and you see tables that are either all Asian, or all not Asian.

For what it's worth, my Toronto DJ friend attended UBC and he said there were simply no parties there. It's as though they forgot how to throw 'ragers'. He tried to teach them the ways of partying, to mediocre avail.
Or possibly someone who became wealthy in the software/opsec industry who believes what they do is for the good of humanity. To a person with a net worth of 100MM+ 100k would not be significant.

The funds didn't necessarily come from the hacktivism.

Edit: Given the bounty is paid in bitcoin, somewhat more likely the funds are donations/fees from hacking. Not likely it came from funds deposited to an exchange (traceable account). Could also be someone who was mining in 2009 (and not from the hacking itself).
Most people’s views don’t neatly align with any party; that’s simply the easiest narrative to follow. I am on the left (technically independent) but I certainly have a mountain of criticism about Democrats. When party loyalty is divorced from values I wouldn’t expect a change in the underlying dynamic that drives people to partisan polarization.

To give an example, I can empathize with the problems many Republicans face: fear of a loss of quality of life, fear of loss of stability, fear of change, fear of changing classes, fear of losing your culture, fear of being left behind by society. In more concrete terms, how do I know I can eat and be healthy and be around my people in the future and experience joy as I do now? In fact these are often the same things that drive Democrats, Independents, in fact these are universal. It is something else (cultural, economic, social?) that drives party loyalty.

For another example, often conservative christians give to charity at higher rates than any other group (at least in the us). Yet, the left is constantly striving for representation and equity, which in some forms is certainly a type of empathy. It is a mistake to consider a lack of empathy a driving force in politics.
I can't imagine why. I run make on case-insensitive-but-case-preserving HFS+ and APFS-formatted disks all the time.
Lego has brought back into production a couple of extremely popular sets, but as new and improved better models. One was the Millennium Falcon UCS set, another is the Imperial Star Destroyer UCS which is the first example the article gives. The article notes the Star Destroyer sold for $280 and is now going for $1500. But it's not selling for $1500 if you look carefully at the listings. Since the new version was released the bottom has fallen out of the market for the older version. Also, the high prices tend to be for unopened sealed boxes, stored somewhere for many years. Obviously there is a very small number of those brand new old stock and with each sale and opening the number decreases. Obviously unopened sealed new sets of long out of print and highly desirable models are going to be expensive. For someone that just wants the set, desirable used sets sell for considerably less than new sealed ones. Also most sets don't really appreciate that much. The ones that do tend to be the very large sets that cost a lot, in particular modular buildings and certain Star Wars sets.

The people that speculate on these stockpile them when Lego is still selling them. Lego makes more of each set until sales slow down enough, then they discontinue the set. Most sets are sold for at least 2 years before retiring. No one is deprived of any sets because the speculators are buying new sets. There's not a limited supply of sets during the time the sets are in production. The speculation mostly goes to Lego's bottom line and profitability. Most speculators don't make money because it's hard to guess what rare set will be one of the few that becomes worth a lot more than you paid for it. For the others, you might be able to sell for what you paid, but then you may have to cover the cost of shipping a big heavy box far away, and if it arrives damaged or bent yet was advertised new, they'll file a return.

In short, this is not really a great way to get rich and these sets are not really investments.
That happens to me when I was living in London too.
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How is this a news? This should be apparent in any office setting since the invention of office work places.
I switched my browser to use verbatim by default when doing google searches for a few months. It still came up with false positives like this.
I hadn't noticed that before. Thank you.
Really? Wells Fargo isn't mining my search history using a black-box algorithm to decide without transparency whether to close my account or decline a transaction because I might have become a risk of some sort.

Not that they would ever do such a thing.
Current Technic is honestly pretty good, IMO.
I didn't know that this product existed, it's interesting to see such a thing be around in the age of bluetooth speakers:

https://www.amazon.com/Marpac-Classic-White-Noise-Machine/dp...

It's a fan in a box, with a certain shape so that when the fan is spinning it ends up generating a nice sound.

Thanks for the info
YMMV. I can relate. When I'm stressed for various non-noise related reasons, I am more easily irritated by noises, and I usually, initially, assume it's the noise.

On the opposite note, I can perform extremely well in noisey environments if I am enjoying what I am doing - like I am able to just tune it out.

Circumstance and other stressors may be a main factor, or it could just be the noise. I imagine it really depends on the person.
"People say being the money haven is a bad idea. Why? I don't really understand"

This is wrong in every way.

Because they are avoiding taxes elsewhere!

It's point blank theft of social property that directly results in mass fraud and inequality.

My gosh man.

If Canadian citizens were avoiding taxes en-masse by hiding it in Jamaica, would Canadians have something to say bout it?

I guess so.

The excess money is not good because it's not likely to be invested wisely: building another dozen high rises does not create material value for Canada - it's a misallocation of resources.

Finally - your quote about 'Vancouver being reasonable' is utterly wrong given that it's one of the most expensive places in the world relative to local incomes. (#2 'least affordable city in the world') [1]

'All of that money' has only served to make Vancouver utterly uninhabitable by the local population, which is a serious degradation of the quality of life.

The fact that you would support stealing the money meant for taxation in some other nation is very problematic.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/eve4j7/vancouver-is-the-s...
If my memory serves correctly then she said something along the lines "I'm just a girl" in the writeup pastebin.
During my first internship when I was 20, I worked for a summer at a medium-sized packaging company to improve their aging order-handling software. Because the floor managers were on the warehouse floor almost the entire day, I took over one of their offices. That summer, I had my own office and it was incredible.

Since then, I have worked in cubicles or desks in open-plan offices.

Now, almost 10 years later, as a (small) team lead at a relatively prestigious company, I realize that I may never have my own office again in my professional career. This thought is oddly depressing.

When I really need to concentrate on a task, I take a portion of the morning and do the task at home, in my home office. I am very aware this is not something most people can do (both because I have the authority to just not come in on a given morning, and because I can afford to have a home office in my own home which is mostly silent). Many on my team do the same thing, possibly accepting that the office is a fundamentally distracting environment. I worry what effects this may have on younger team members who don't have access to a home office.

I do see the benefits of open-plan offices (for one, being at work feels less alienating), but I think we may have lost something important in the transition.
That particular auction is coming up in a few days.

Much more within reach to bid on a regular used car at the common auctions that regular used car dealers buy from.

Or you could purchase more leisurely from the dealer on his terms.

Either way their offices will often display a tattered old sign: _Cash Talks and BS Walks_.
"7 links of miso"... I remember that every time I buy sausage links. Gross haha.
I’m missing something. Are they selling blog posts? What’s the content source?