skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On my list to read in 2020:

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The Rust Programming Language
Progressive Web Apps
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability
Farming the Woods
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
Affinity Designer Workbook
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Walden
A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration
Ernest Hemingway On Writing
The Two Hands of God (Alan Watts)
The Anarchist's Design Book and/or With the Grain: A Craftsman's Guide to Wood
Dune
Some other fiction reading I'll decide on after I finish Dune

Books/Authors I've read that I would recommend:

Tao of Physics, Web of Life, Systems View of Life, etc. (Fritjof Capra)
^Capra's work has heavily influenced my worldview and ability to think in systems

Designing Data Intensive Applications (just finishing this week)
Permaculture One & Two, Gaia's Garden, Edible Forest Gardens I&II
Black Swan, Antifragile, etc. (Nassim Taleb)
Cloud Hidden: Whereabouts Unknown (Alan Watts, written late in life)
Ishmael, Story of B, etc. (Daniel Quinn)
You are Not a Gadget, Who Owns the Future, etc. (Jaron Lanier)
Goethe's Italian Journey
Vonnegut, Hemingway, Steinbeck
The Wheel of Time
Zeppelins: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster
Yeah, same feelings.

Also LDraw.org[0] (open-source digital lego community) still has no official word from LEGO Group members to LDraw Ambassador about acquiring of BrickLink, as BrickLink's Stud.io app use LDraw Parts Library.[1]

FTR, Ten members of the LDraw core met at the LEGO headquarter in Billund on May 22-26, 2019. (...) they also had a meeting with people from the LDD team and other compartments of the company. A request for a dedicated information channel when it comes down to part numbers, meshes or colours was forwarded.[2]

[0] https://www.ldraw.org/

[1] https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-23768.html

[2] https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-23439.html
2020 prediction: Amazon buys LEGO.

June 2020: lead found in all LEGO bricks ... how does lead even get into non-metal toys? Life finds a way.
The Improbable Insanity of “Cats”
Apple: https://www.apple.com/apple-books/
Huh? How is superiority relevant here? I don’t work at Google (I have in the past) and both systems come out of that company with some of the same people have worked on both. If anything, Google marketing department would probably prefer for people to believe that Kubernetes ~= Borg to help sell GKE, not the other way around. Kubernetes is basically limited to several thousand hosts. That doesn’t even register at Google scale. Other folks do have high QPS systems but none really use Kubernetes to manage the entire cluster; Facebook comes to mind, for example, with an in house system. I would bet against that prediction; I don’t believe such a thing is even on the roadmap internally.
The current issue with many cloud providers today is that they had designed all these fantastic features but then completely left it up to the customers to figure out new use cases on their own. They forgot that the majority of customers don't have much clue about the cloud let alone those advanced features, and cloud providers are sitting here complaining that they are running out of patience waiting for customers to get on board. Designing new features alone is not enough, they must also design the actual use cases to convince customers because most of them don't have any clue of how to actually turn those advanced cloud services into something more useful than just hosting. It's not a capability issue but rather it's a use case problem.
Thank you. The model I was selling is supposed to be round. I should've been more clear.
Knowledge is power, now couple this with modern medical research, advertising, aggregate private consumer data, public official records, or basically everything that is already being collected from us.

This is a weapon. They don't want eugenics or even want to treat us. They want to administer us like cattle into global depopulation programs while only elite practices eugenics. Now since they have more genetic data they will be able to have raw correlative power on our weaknesses, behaviorisms, and the like. This will help form their final game plan.
Why fighting aliens in outer space isn't as fun as it sounds
That all changed with chipped cards - they work fine now (at least for my preferred ones).

Of course, that didn't help in 2017 when we had to get one of the tellers to do a on-the-spot conversion of dollars to euros at marginal rate of about 200 USD to 100 EUR (way higher than interbank rate) - we had no choice, and no one to complain to.

I'm not sure the teller enjoyed the transaction either.
No. It's China's market protectionism and one-way trade practices. For example, many products of major US companies are banned in China (think Google and Facebook). Whereas Chinese products are able to enter international markets with minimal barrier to entry. There are many more barriers for an American company to enter the Chinese market than the other way around. This is just part of it, there are many more aspects.
That's exactly it,gourmet foods in general hold a very nonlinear price premium for that small marginal taste increment. Those increments never match the dollar increments.
Who are you, from the sounds of it you are either work for Australia post or have never used them.
It's problematic for life insurance. You can socialize the costs of the self-selection problem in healthcare, but you can't do the same with life insurance. Maybe at the margins we can tweak things, provide publicly-funded alternatives (e.g. like Social Security survivorship benefits in the U.S.), etc but fundamentally if you prevent discrimination then private life insurance will simply disappear.

When I bought my term life insurance policy they took a blood sample, as they have for decades. I don't know if they did any genetic screening, but if they didn't I presume it's just because the cost+benefit wasn't there yet. Considering that I could do whole genome sequencing today for a couple thousand dollars and game the system, that bodes well for the future as it suggests the viability of tiered screening and risk management strategies that smooth out the costs for most people in the face of increasing self-selection behaviors as genome sequencing costs decline for insurer and insured.

BTW, regardless of whether a life insurer does genetic screening, if you procure a policy knowing of a substantial risk of genetic illness without disclosing it that would violate the terms of most policies and may even rise to the level of insurance fraud.[1] We may see laws limiting the types of affirmative screening that can be done by insurers, but I could never see a law limiting such contractual terms and general background rules as it would certainly destroy the market for life insurance.

[1] Thus, if you want both life or disability insurance and genetic tests, the legally and ethically correct thing to do is buy the policy first and then do the genetic tests afterwards. It makes sense to buy life and disability insurance at a relatively young age, anyhow, like in your late twenties or early thirties where your income has [hopefully] already risen to a level where you can buy a multi-million dollar policy without a penalty--from a risk management perspective insurers can only offer the best rates when there's a correspondence between the policy amount and existing, proven income. By contrast, it makes less sense to do genetic testing until you have reason to, like in middle age. That's fortuitous and one reason why we should be less concerned about the effect of voluntary genetic testing and disclosure rules regarding life insurance. (Obviously affirmative genetic screening is a different problem.)
Its far from trivial to change an entire corporate culture on a dime.

You can say that, but when it's a response to the fact that Microsoft did that EXACT THING on the the scale in which they did it your statement doesn't hold any water. Go back in time and walk onto the Microsoft campus in Seattle and tell anyone that will listen in say 1995, 1999, 2001, 2007, or 2012 that Windows licensing is a dead end and see if you don't get lumped in with the loonies talking about the end of the world.

To say that Google can't do it is more an indictment of Google's leadership as opposed to the enormity of the task. To thinking a company with a 934 billion dollar market cap (Alphabet) can't figure out how to do enterprise software support if it wanted to, what a joke.

Edit: spelling.
$25 for cleaning a relatively small dataset does sound a bit high but not outrageous.. given the process abstracts out all the infra tweaking and setting up various systems. $25 an hour is probably a good estimate of how much a data warehouse like snowflake costs for a reasonable cluster as well, so unless you spin up your own spot ec2 instances and set up a spark cluster and perform the operations the cost savings are going to be marginal at best?

Do you need to run this pipeline more than once a day? Is it sufficiently important for your business case? I feel like 25 is a very small sum if any of them are remotely true.

On a related note, how practically reliable is the DataPrep->DataFlow workflow? Could a reasonably smart analyst with zero programming experience set them up and run them? Feel like that's who this workflow is built for, but I've not had the best of experiences with Trifacta demos in AWS with reliability.
I think you're totally wrong. China is not a nation of laws the way the US or European countries strive to be. It's a different philosophy. They have laws, but the laws are not supposed to be supreme over the rulers.

And there are TONS of examples of official lies, especially on the subject of the ownership and control of large enterprises.
I wonder if there were fraudulent stock transactions during that period (ie, not insider trading but stock manipulation).
> are all just banging bits

At the end of the day, isn't playing the latest and greatest game on a new nVIDIA graphics card at 5k across 2 monitors also just "banging bits" too? :)
The state of health insurance in the US would be better described as a "private social health benefit program".

Insurance is effective at protecting people from uncertain financial risks, but the demands of the public have gradually changed the function of health insurance to include many things outside of that.

The question was never "what functions do insurance companies do efficiently?", the question has always been "what health benefits do people deserve?". Unfortunately, these questions have different answers.
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If such a large number of JavaScript and Ruby devs could learn Rust relatively quickly[0], I'm hoping that a firmware dev could as well. The only semi-hard concept about Rust is lifetimes, and that's getting much easier now.

I mean, if you're not allocating to the heap, Rust memory management is not as useful, I concede. But once you learn to properly model data using algebraic data types (in Rust: enums and tuples), it's a huge, huge gamechanger in how you write programs. You can literally make it impossible to represent illegal states, thus saving massive amounts of error handling[1]. Functional devs have been enjoying this for decades, and now it's available to embedded world via Rust.

0. Seriously, a huge number of active Rust devs come from those communities. Even a significant number of Rust compiler devs come from Ruby and JavaScript backgrounds.

1. Yes, with some clever techniques, this is also possible - to a certain extent - in languages without ADTs, but only to a very limited extent. It becomes simple and natural with ADTs
Solipsism embeds a lot of un-articulated axioms in "I". The author's point is valid in that respect, that we need more axioms than just "I am", which is true, and they are all smuggled into our definition of what we mean by "I" and "am".

Just take "I", and ask what am I? Or how am I? And so on. What is this "I" that I cannot doubt that I am? If we use dream physics, for example, we can answer a lot of the issues the author raised, which were, ultimately, mostly problems with the fact that "I" remains undefined.

With dream physics, we can easily see that, given an "I" that works like a brain (or the abstract construct I have explicated to myself as "brain", whatevs), that it's very trivial to have other so-called "split" versions of ourselves, and events that seem to surprise us, scare us, or even cause us physical pain - though every single event in the dream is fabricated by the dreamer embedded in the dream.
Employers are typically not afraid of the protocol, but afraid of not being able to control it. Companies can run their own filtered DoH just like they can with DNS.
What stories? Most stories I hear about USPS are complaints about waiting in line. Otherwise USPS ranks pretty high, internationally, for quality of service.

In the Universal Postal Union’s report for 2018, US ranked #8. Australia ranked #26.
It's not about being a security risk.

This person used their access as a developer to alter internal security tools to promote their own messaging. That shows a profound lack of judgement, and it's not surprising their access would be revoked.
> Obviously, you're better off not giving that information to your ISP if you don't have to, and with DOH, you don't have to:

This is incorrect. DoH doesn't take away that information, DoH only takes away one source of that information, other sources are still available to your ISP. So adding DoH to the mix simply forces you trust more parties with the same amount of information. There is just no way around it. DoH is simply not for privacy.
> They make embarrassingly more than I do, have been programming for a scant few years, and I couldn't care less.

I think the bigger question is, with programming being made more common to the public (aka being taught in elementary school), will the supply/demand ratio that makes US development a six figure job go away with the influx of "new would-be coders"?
You have to realize the limits of “if everyone thinks something is a good idea, it's probably a bad idea.” It doesn’t apply to things like brushing your teeth or learning to program computers.
Oil is used in the transmission and engine. The bearings and most sealed gearboxes use silicone grease. Lots of dampers use silicone oils. In consumer products and anything sealed, silicones are far more common and heavily preferred. PDMS for instance has rheological properties that make it almost flat out better; it spreads and covers surfaces extremely well. As a bonus it has better thermal and chemical resistance.

Silicone rubbers are well known to have far superior mechanical and chemical properties than carbon-based rubbers. 99.9% of the time the only factor is cost. N-butyl and urethane have some advantages for certain chemicals, which is almost never relevant. Silicone plastics are at least as good as common plastics like PVC, ABS, HDPE etc. Fancier stuff like flouropolymers, definitely not.

> Because you see car oil synthetics are preferred over mineral maybe?

Is this some kind of gotcha you're trying to set up? Synthetic oils are not silicones.

> Just ONE example off the top of my head, carbon fiber, is almost entirely oil.

NB that I was specific- lubricants, plastic, and rubber. There is a composite made from silicon... Fiberglass. It's orders of magnitude more common than CFRP and in many applications s-glass is both stronger and lighter. Still bonded with carbon, of course.

Overall you're responding to an argument that I am not making.
USPS definitely has/had a reputation, but your post made me realize, I haven't had any negative experiences with them in as long as I care to remember. If I had to complain, it's that sometimes packages say they're delivered a day before they actually arrive.

USPS is one of only two couriers I'll actually select if I get a choice. They put my packages in my mailbox (I realize others legally can't) or if it doesn't fit, they bring the packages to my door and knock. UPS is the other.

Other couriers place packages on my driveway, halfway down my stairs, or in other weird places. Occasionally one of them will actually come all the way down the stairs, but they won't knock.
This piece is less formal, but with more immediacy.

https://www.boredpanda.com/why-do-millennials-want-to-die/
Regardless, he got the owner's permission. (Not the artist's though)
Then it is a completely unfalsifiable claim, and is, therefore, unprovable.
Even if they asked those questions, the PR would've looked pretty legit. No one directly asks "did your manager approve this?", that would be silly. When a PR is made and you're asked to review, you assume that the person went through the proper steps to get approval in the first place. In this case those other employees would've seen just another notice being added to an employee page
Excerpt (from page 19):

Internet & Helpful Apps

"As a general rule, the Internet as you know it is blocked
in China. There’s no access to Google services, Facebook,
Twitter, Imgur, YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox, Telegram, etc. etc.
As a consolation, there’s Bing. Roaming data service will
bypass the firewall since roaming phones are assigned an IP
address from the home country of the subscriber’s carrier,
but it’s an expensive option. Prices vary depending upon
the carrier, but currently T-mobile offers one of the lowest
cost international roaming data plans. A VPN is a cheaper
way to get around the firewall, but depending upon the
political climate even VPNs can be blocked. China’s firewall
routers have the ability to do deep packet inspection and
thus can automatically discover VPN connections running
on unconventional ports or with other small modifications
intended to bypass less sophisticated firewalls."
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Characteristic story: postie piles 10,000 pieces of undelivered mail in his house. Nobody notices until he chucks some in the bin and a neighbor spots undelivered mail spilling out of a trash bag.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/australia-post-m...
How about for real-time audio?
Let's call it health industrial complex.

If you have a white collar job at any one of health care companies in the u.s. (medical health insurance, hospital, pharma, device makers, pharmacy benefits, retail pharmacies, doctors office) you know why healthcare is really expensive in the U.S.

There are lots and lots of white collar jobs that are extremely handsomely paid. So many duplication of functions across competing private companies. No good standardization. Surgeons that make well into 7 figures. Thousands of executives making tens of millions of dollars in total comps. Thousands of highly paid IT professionals just at one large healthcare companies. Pharmacists raking in $130-150k. Lawyers and malpractice suits. All #1 in the world.

Somebody has to pay for all these rackets.(of which I'm also part of)
Your cheap shot that doesn’t point to data fosters similar opinions about you.
That's right.

For instance, in the redox-os kernel, there is less than 100 places where unsafe is needed : https://doc.redox-os.org/book/introduction/unsafes.html.
Most people on HN are programmers, not EEs.
Never used Google for anything important.

You're cattle to Google. Their lack of customer support in literally every one of their offerings shows their approach to making money. They will shut you off in a heartbeat and you have no recourse except to email a bot. Ultimately your puny little shop doesn't matter to their bottom line.
It looks like the person behind https://zainamro.com/ can't be bothered to provide a navigation menu on every page, or even a link back to their site's home page, so they'd probably dismiss your question out of hand.

However, if you really want consistent elements on every page, you could probably do the job with m4 and a makefile. You can party like it's 1998[1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190813130112/https://www.linux...
This is a pretty common format for playing go. Usually called pair go. There's even fairly large tournaments for it here and there.

(To be clear I'm only talking about the two players on a team part, it's usually 2:2, not 2:1)

Personally I hate it and am absolutely awful at it, but to each their own.
When I've heard people question or say there is no rule of law in China, usually it's followed up with how their court system isn't independent of their political system by design, not that it's lawless/a free for all for the CCP.

Not that I disagree with a large chunk of what you said either, but it's just not hyperbole that China has no rule of law per a common definition of the word because of party and worker judicial supremacy.

Rule of law definition:
the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws.

Three Supremes: http://chinamediaproject.org/2010/11/12/three-supremes-%e4%b...
What a disgustingly rude response.
Pretty amazing how a whole thread of HN readers assumes that everyone who plays with LEGOs is a man
> Instead of setting it to an arbitrary string it would be great if the UA header was not set at all.

Didn't someone post his experience getting more expensive flights because he used a Mac?

Yes! Please, take UA out.
This genetic data will be used by 3rd parties not (only?) altruistically but to maximize profits. Any products developed using this genetic data will likely have profit as their primary motive.

Wanting to accelerate the development of novel drugs and therapies to treat disease is great. But rather than giving a private company carte blanche to share data with third parties trusting (hoping?) that the outcome will benefit humanity, it would be better first to establish a sensible regulatory framework around genetic information and its uses by private companies and the governnment.
That is how consent should work, if I don't consent I should not buy your apple. Buying your apple is optional, I'm not required to buy your apple.

Opt-in is when I buy your apple.

Opt-out is when I don't buy your apple.
Infosys to pay California $800K to settle worker, tax fraud charges
... but it's a dude, right? Like when we aren't playing make believe?
About two years ago I did some work for PBS that might be related to this. The objective was to turn their catalog into a static feed that could be consumed by table top boxes.

An interesting aspect of the project was that their catalog was fairly well normalized. I was expecting the usual mess of data structures.

It was built with vanilla Django. No rest framework because the feed was rendered to static files served by S3. During our discussions I brought using Go for its performance and resilience. That was (correctly) decided against and we went with Django. Why Django? It's easy to wrap up periodic jobs as commands and runnning them with django celery.
Can’t upvote this enough
Is there any way to visit Shenzhen without submitting your fingerprints to the Chinese government? I've heard that everyone gets their fingers scanned at entry these days even if you never had to submit fingerprints with your visa application. Is that correct?
They got a code review. That doesn't mean the message they inserted was approved, it just means they got two engineers to sign off on the code.

Obviously, inserting pro-unionization messaging into a security tool isn't "by the book", or we wouldn't be having this discussion.