skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is definitely bad. I have been furious with how they steal and abuse international laws for well over a decade now. But their blockages on soy and other American exports are a large factor in the US subsidies for farmers. I’d rather those farmers be able to make a living without subsidies. The sad fact though is those markets have moved onto other sources now and regularizing trade might do nothing for them. That’s the legacy of trump.
The simpler solution is to just remotely set off an alarm. I do this frequently with the "Where is my Android" thing. Internet-enabled devices should include this capability by default, anything more is just over-engineered.
You can have an updoot for that.
I really liked the first season, which gave a wide view of the intersection between political machines, the wealthy, mobsters, ethnic communities, WWI veterans, reform groups, etc that made up the prohibition era in a much more interesting way than a lot of treatments of the time, which tend to focus on the mobsters to the exclusion of all else.

Sadly after the first season, it pretty quickly degenerated into "all mobsters, all the time" show. Even the FBI guy joined the mob.
They did put a Cummins in the Titan XD, which will give that truck line a sales boost, despite the new design being ugly as hell.
> Why use RabbitMQ and Kafka if you can use ZeroMQ?

They are totally different, you're comparing apples with oranges.

ZeroMQ gives you basic, very fast tooling to communicate between distributed processes. ZeroMQ does not provide tooling for e.g. maintaining a strictly ordered, multi-terabyte event log. And so on.
You're right about the tax numbers, I was referencing 2018 data, so I'll update that. Also I don't disagree with what you said about the deficit spending, I do believe that the long term solution is shrinking government spending, but I don't think that will be politically feasible in the next recession.

As far as a VAT goes, you could adjust the VAT to fall heavily on certain items, but in many ways you're right. My point in that statement was to find a way to tax large corporations. I don't think the US tax code is "perfectly set up to boost taxation" when one of the largest growth sectors pays such low rates. Also the top 25% already pay quite high tax rates, and this option is also politically infeasible at least right now.
Some contextual data from US cities in 2018

City – City Population (Metro Area Population), City Density per Square Mile, City Traffic Fatalities

Oslo [1]: 690,335 (1,588,457), 3,938, 1

Nashville [2][3]: 692,587 (1,930,961), 1,374, 82

Portland [4][5]: 653,115 (2,478,810), 4,911, 34

Milwaukee [6][7]: 592,025 (1,572,245), 6,155, 68

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee

[3] https://data.nashville.gov/Police/Traffic-Accidents-2018-/8k...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon

[5] https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/74093

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee

[7] https://wisconsindot.gov/Pages/about-wisdot/newsroom/statist...
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I think I’m going to have to start selling different safety system bypassers, there’s obviously a market here..

Fire detectors covers/alarm silencers/extinguisher disablers.. Life boat/jackets deflators.. fake empty lightweight shell bike/motorcycle helmets.. reflector blackouts.. etc..

Kinda like buying Darwin Award lottery tickets..
Its more than one project in the repo.
Then you would have been willing to risk your job (as it was implied to have an element of accountability) AND you think you have an established ethic that would reject this exercise. That is a rare position and quality, which should give you pause. ie Not everyone is you.
I don't think that's the case in the UK at least.

However the sugar level is higher per fixed volume because the removal of the fat increases the concentration of what remains.
I keep my Kindle on airplane mode all the time so this wouldn't work.
I wish I could learn to build my own tiles, vector or PNG. I don't really understand where the data comes from, how is data gathered and assembled.

I'm also really curious about the choices involving the zoom level, how do you decide to render things depending on the zoom level, when is data discarded, to have good detail or better performance and lighter tiles. I would really be willing to try build lighter maps so I can have my own mapping software on a desktop machine.

The data sizes and hardware requirements involved are generally pretty big. It could be interesting to see how much details one could achieve to make a "portable" map browser when limiting the data size to 2GB, 5GB or 10GB.

I would really like to ask why, on some mapping software, you can't see names of large enough cities/places/regions that are obviously there. It often makes it difficult to browse maps properly.
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Military seems most likely to me. The military have said it is not them but we all know that doesn't make it true.

Assuming they are searching for something what could be found after dark? Perhaps something that gives off radioactivity or light in an invisible spectrum? Why would they fly at night other than to help them lay low?

Perhaps it is some sort of military drone flight training program?
Because, as someone observed in an earlier thread, agile has become a management practice instead of an engineering practice.
Why is one Apache providing competing with another one?
Not supported by all devices. It's unlikely it's easier to get everyone to agree to support this feature than a firmware update to wireless access points (which might even be open source depending on the hardware specd) to support time of flight ranging. If you can ship it, ship it. Don't wait on someone else.
Mostly to avoid what others have responded with. The person I'm supporting is ~1500 miles away for much of the year and I found Apple's update process would randomly disable my remote access setup, in addition to random UI changes. 2-3 times a year I apply updates in person as well as take snapshot backups on a portable drive.
It's more of a marketing-first approach than user-first.

There is something I'm impatiently waiting for though: Optimization so it doesn't take 5+ seconds for Photoshop to load and be usable. Why doesn't it load within 100ms on $3,000 modern hardware? It's image editing software, not Grand Theft Auto!

That's where some energy could be put and make a real, tangible difference to everyone.
Well... yeah.

I'm much happier using some css-in-ts solution, because then I can use stricter types against what I define. No need to track down why my `background-colour` isn't doing anything somewhere, or setting up some separate tool to validate it.

While we're looking at cultural problems, this view of style-work as somehow being easier/lighter/less-important/etc. vs the "real" code is at the root of so many of these problems. It's very fashionable to praise functional programming and all the virtues of being declarative, yet we can't connect that with good practices for style.
It's good to avoid anything that sells itself as "low-fat" unless it comes that way naturally.

Often you'll find that "low-fat" means high sugar.
And then online banking and your government eID Middleware won't work...
I did some quick research by googling poverty rate in {country}
USA: 12.3%
Spain: 12.1%
France: 14.1%
Norway: 0.2%
Germany: 15.7%

Besides Norway, they all seem relatively consistent. I initially thought this might be due to their oil reserves but it seems oil rich US states are still in the 11-12% range
NATS is amazing but note that it makes different promises than Pulsar. NATS doesn't offer true durability (in exchange for amazing performance and great simplicity) whereas Pulsar and similar are meant to survive certain partition or failure situations and not lose data.

It's not one or the other, they're just different tools.
You are completely right, looks like they took the first line of the conclusion instead. Thank you!
> Very interesting choice! The Racket code is beautiful, and I like that it's parsing user input as commands.

Thanks! I wrote the core in Racket to make it easy to port the app to other platforms and because I'm a lot more productive when writing Racket code.

> One feature a user might want is an overview of stashed notes.

You can actually see your stashed entries by pressing the up/down arrows or ctrl+n :D
We tried to adopt this but found the documentation very lacking and a severe lack of quality client libraries for our language of choice (go).the "official" one had race conditions in the code as well as "todo" for key pieces littered throughout. There is another from comcast which is abandoned. We had a serious discussion about picking up ownership of the library or writing our own but as a small start up we didnt feel we could do it and still develop the product. I'll continue to keep an eye on pulsar but for now Kafka is the clear go to imo. It's well documented, great SAS offerings (confluent) and tons of books and training courses for it.
Ah, another person experiencing `ffmpeg fatigue`. Holy cow is that a language-in-a-command-line. I ended up using 11/17 graph paper to write out a mess of notes trying to understand how everything is put together.

There are some solid wrappers, now, but in the past most of the libraries I've run into (at least on the C# side) exposed a limited feature set as a way of reducing the complexity. The features omitted, of course, were ones I needed. So I always ended up back using a ba/zsh script and the command-line.

Based on my notes, I've always felt that it wouldn't take much to represent the command-line options in a more elegant way using a YAML definition (with more descriptive property names than the CLI options use). Inputs, Outputs, Filters and their Relationships between each. Seems like it'd be easy to validate outside of ffmpeg... I went down the path, briefly, but got side-tracked.
In a court of law, if someone sues over the scenario you've described, appeal to authority is exactly how a defendant would argue that what they did isn't considered racist and therefore doesn't violate the law.

To understand the pathological behavior if megacorporations, look to the law under which they operate.
> it is HR's responsibility, in general, to ensure the paperwork is in order if an employee needs to be fired

It is also HR's responsibility to step in when someone fills a room with employees of one race and asks others to repeat stereotypes to them. Or, to ensure the company follows whistleblower statute.
Great idea, thank you.
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The best dev on my team is also a very reluctant communicator.

This guy is a beast at getting things done, and is a good communicator once you get him talking. Overall, a joy to work with. However, you do typically have to make the first step. He kinda stays dark without scheduled meetings.

To me the key is to keep the daily standups VERY brief. They help the "reluctant" communicators. And they don't cost the "active" communicators very much time.

I am a fairly "active" communicator myself. I'm gonna spend 15 minutes talking to my freaking team every day anyway. So a brief 10-15 morning standup is no problem at all.
Additionally the Federal government withholds grants if States don’t pass applicable laws (e.g., drinking age and highway funding).
Do you tend to prefer fiction or nonfiction more?

That's a tough question. I hate to sound like I'm dodging the issue, but I'd say it's pretty close to 50/50. But if you put a gun to my head and made me pick, I guess I'd say that I have a very slight preference for reading non-fiction.
Buy some VR Lens protectors. I got some for my vive, there were some special dedicated ones but I just got a pair of smart watch protectors that were recommended on Reddit.
Those two issues are related. In both cases, Google is hypocritically betraying its original promise to respect social good.
The states can legalize marijuana, meaning that the state police and courts no longer prosecute it.

But currently the federal government can still come in and make arrests, although they typically choose not to enforce the law, because doing so would be politically unpopular. Plus it's not like there are FBI agents walking the beat trying to make low-level drug busts.

The most confusing is Washington D.C., a federal territory, which has been granted limited home rule. They voted in a referendum to legalize and regulate marijuana, but then were prohibited by Congress from spending any money to actually draft the necessary regulations. The result is that marijuana is illegal to buy or sell but legal to possess or use, except in many public parks which are technically part of the federal National Park system.
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I think the timing makes Moxie's point very well without him saying a thing.

All these years later Matrix only has... The ambition to some day try to offer the core privacy features Signal already delivered back then. Some of the most basic stuff is, you believe, almost kinda sorta done.

This is, to be clear, much better than just sitting back insisting you were right but not lifting a finger. But for an actual user who needed privacy and security any time between then and now - and for future users who need it between now and whenever you get this stuff working in the real world, it was Signal that delivered. Moxie was right so far.
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Fully agree.

Honoring deadlines also makes you predictable.

I once managed a handful of products for manufacturing. Our customers planned their down time, upgrades, etc around our releases. Defects, delays cost our customers real money.
So they buy the big two components, motors and batteries, from other people rather than Tesla's (it would seem) superior ones.

There is so much EV plans of actions in companies seem to almost only be for mollifying activist investors livid that their particular company has been asleep at the wheel for 20 years of Tesla's rise.

Otherwise someone would be partnering. No one wants to admit they suck at engineering though.
If you had been too conservative for all 2018 you'd also have missed out on the few down days that eliminated all gains that year. So even if you sat out for a year due to your imprecise prediction, you'd have come out ahead of others who owned stocks.

Problem is predicting which 8-12 month period the down days will happen. Seems like it should be reasonable to able to do that, but predictions of weather patterns over the same time range seem more accurate.
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You can walk in the countryside all you want, but you'll be walking on the asphalt roadway with vehicles zooming along at 70mph and limited sightlines, so you'll probably end up dead in a ditch by the side of the road if you make that a lifelong habit. The driver who killed you probably won't stop, and would not be punished by the legal system even if they did.
In my thinking, I think of an endpoint as something at either end of the communication channel (NATS in this case) where it is effectively terminal. Usually this is where the application logic lies. Dereck Collison (creator of NATS) brings this up in many of his talks about NATS, but I think the source of his thinking might come from “End-to-End Arguments in System Design” by Saltzer, Reed, & Clark.

The core of it is this point:

"Functions placed at low levels of a system may be redundant or of little value when compared with the cost of providing them at that low level."

That is, in order get that message redundancy or exactly once delivery, or message persistence, you pay a high cost, and you may be better off delegating to the endpoints.

This blog provides a good overview

https://blog.acolyer.org/2014/11/14/end-to-end-arguments-in-...

Here is the original paper

http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoen...
This is great !! What would be the easiest way to run a 3 node cluster ?
>> Guam and Puerto Rico are already part of the US.

> But they can't vote and have no (useful) representation in Congress. Citizens of Guam and Puerto Rico are treated as second class citizens ("US Nationals", not "US Citizens").

It's a similar situation in Washington DC. DC residents were given a few electoral college votes, I believe that was put into effect only relatively recently in the 1960s. They have no vote in the US house and no senators.
> Their only line I think will continue to be successful is the Leaf.

The new Leaf is arguably over priced, spec/price wise.
How many peoples health has deteriorated due to inhaling particulates from the fires - what was the cost? How many man-hours have been spent fighting the fires? How many cancelled film shoots, or other outdoor events? How much tourism revenue was lost? The list is endless. Looking just at the number of homes seems very narrow - there's a myriad of costs (direct and indirect)
There's no shortage of things someone might find morally acceptable themselves while still being potentially criminal. Or grey area stuff, like a business that sells marijuana in a state where it's legal, since the US federal government doesn't consider it legal.

Or use cases like a crypto wallet. Where legality isn't the main concern.
Now you are multiple people?

Anybody can read Wikipedia, but evidently not everybody can understand what it says.
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