skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree, it also technically is associated since garbage in the ocean is leading to ecological issues, which through chain events can effectively affect the global ecology, which in turn affects the climate. I'm not saying this is any measurable amount, both due to complexity and relativity, but I think it's also important it's not forgotten that how we treat the environment has far-reaching affects one the food chain (and fauna) is affected.
> The difficulty is that you are going to earn a lot less while you are at university, so if you spend 3 years there earning $0, it really drags down lifetime earnings unless the degree adds a somewhat decent %age above baseline in terms of earning power.

You'd have to have a less than 7% earning power increase, and I wouldn't even call that a decent percentage for one year of dedicated self-funded training.
I’d say it is important to lock up those that hurt society

But I agree that in most countries prisons are true hellholes

In the US laws mandate certain level of care, and government prefer to pay someone else than handle the costs: unions, pensions for those prison staff
I quickly read the second link you provided and didn't see anything backing up your claim about landlords jacking up rents but I could have missed it. It's also worth noting that there are laws that prevent large rent increases in Vancouver.

http://www.housing.gov.bc.ca/rtb/WebTools/RentIncrease.html
To be honest, Apple’s own tutorials aren’t really that much better, and are also often outdated.

Raywenderlich.com is always my first pick.
It became increasingly hard to find EPUBs with DDG or Google.
There's no inherent reason why "job opportunities" have to be in only a very few places.

I'm not sure anyway that local workers are fundamentally more entitled to be allowed to buy property than other groups of people who might want to spend money to acquire real property.
Unrelated, but the cover letter is my least favorite part of job hunting, because I'm often hard pressed to explain why I want to work there beyond "you're hiring, I'm looking, and this job looks suitable for me, and at least mildly interesting".
McDonalds seems to be rolling them out slowly, but are actually cutting staff while simultaneously increasing their fleet of touchscreens. I see a lot more employees alternating between doing work in the kitchen vs. taking orders at the cashier. This is even during relatively high demand times with long customer wait lines. This is just an anecdote though, the data may disagree.

I'd also be curious to see any user interface studies on these touchscreens. In my limited experiences, they are completely slow and thus an awful experience. They clearly are trying to sell more at every step instead of being useful and efficient for the end user.
A few months ago I made a conscious point to start saying “web search” instead of “Google”. Same number of syllables, and it has grown more familiar and natural over time. Same with “tissue” instead of “Kleenex”. I tell my coworkers to “just do a web search for $phrase” and it comes out fine. Several of them have switched to DDG, so the term “web search” is more inclusive anyways :)
Generally, you don't make payments on student loans until after you graduate. That means you have years to spend the money before you have to worry about refusing to pay
Perhaps after 1-2 years of mandatory military or civil service. Experiences like that put things into quite a perspective. At least for me, going on to university straight from high school was the most illinformed thing I ever did.

Thing is, most people can't afford a gap year.
This should be a much larger part of forest fire conversations.
I just bought his Swift book collection based on a colleague’s advice - I particularly wanted this book on Unit Testing.

I’ve loved them. Just chiming in to also suggest them.
I don't really think Oil is relevant to this topic. The only good reason I can think of for someone to script in bash is for portability purposes. If someone wanted portability without bash's shitty syntax, something like Python would be a much better candidate than Oil. One could also argue that there's no meaningful difference between e.g. fish scripts and Oil scripts because neither will work on the standard shell. It's also possible to run bash scripts from fish by simply calling bash. Right now, Oilshell is a reasonable choice for an interactive shell with bash compatibility, whereas Oil syntax is just as, if not more, useless for public distribution as fish.

As I see it, the goal for a project like Oilshell (a shell with both a new syntax and support for standard bash syntax) would be to replace bash as the default shell in distros. Until then, Oil scripts lack the primary feature of bash scripts just like other alternative shells.
My experience is that google gives me results assuming all of the words I searched aren’t the words I’m looking for, and it uses tangentially related words in place of everything. Even quotes are useless now.

Ddg is useless when I’m searching for local things like restaurants and whatnot, but for general searches, it gives me what I’m actually looking for at least 75% of the time. With google, I’m barely hitting 25% these days unless it’s a very well established phrase/concept that I’m searching. In which case, it’s basically functioning as a Wikipedia search engine.
Perhaps a better metaphor would be a startup entrepreneur that takes VC and then folds the company when he doesn't like it anymore. He'd be in pretty hot water for a stunt like that.
The actual title is: Why We Love How-to Videos

And the subtitle is: Instructional videos can teach us anything—especially if you watch them this way.
FreeBSD doesn't have 'top-managers'. It is more democratic than the linux organization. It means that people and companies contribute what they need or what they are personally motivated to work on. I also don't think there is a general consensus that we want or need to be as popular as linux. FreeBSD supports products making in excess of 100bn a year. It is likely a much smaller number than linux but hardly irrelevant and enough to keep the community active.
So I’ll double major in biology and something else I’m actually interested in, say my intended career is medicine (even though it’s not), and maintain my low interest rate for four years (or even longer)?
For 18 year olds with no income or credit history, credit card debt is also frequently 25% APR & the line of credit capped at a few hundred dollars.
Not really the same but https://www.jooq.org/ is really nice
Less sarcastic, but overall not that different.
I believe Fog Creek had (at the time of writing this) already been in both situations at various points. Joel wasn't famous at the start.

But the context of this statement isn't really related to fresh startups. it's aimed at software companies... presumably with existing customers and revenue.

And yes, it's true that there are lots of exceptions at any level... a big press score or whatnot. The underlying point is solid though, imo. Most software companies best strategy is to make more/better software for their customers to buy/use. Shiny, big, spiky "tactical wins" are neither necessary nor sufficient. They just loom large in our narration of events.
A better variant was proposed by an economist at UBC (Tom Davidoff). There would be a high property tax on ALL properties, which you could reduce by the amount of income tax you actually pay in the province.

Whether the property is vacant or not, the tax must be paid. But if you actually pay taxes for working here, it’s cool.
Companies will only pay if they're forced to pay and are aware that they have to pay in the first place. That means you better have a nagging screen and better make it very clear that commercial usage requires a paid license.

For desktop software, I'd suggest to detect if the system has a proxy configured, that's a good hint whether it's a corporate computer.
As proposed by Tom Davidoff. Yes.
I dobt know if other people can see it looking at my eyes, but on certain low light conditions, I do see a subtle elongated 'X' sorta looks like a mostly transparent '>---<' at the bottom of my vision. From talking with my Doc, its a small side effect of how they fold the lense implant when they insert it to minimize the size of the incision in the cornea. I dont normally notice it, and since its on the peripheral, it is pretty easy to ignore.

Edit: spelling
Ask HN: Obtain a .us domain without a current US nexus?
I have secured domain names for a brand idea that would also sound good with a .us suffix ("us" completes the phrase). If the brand gains recognition I suspect the .us version of the domain will be promptly squatted.

The usTLD nexus requirements are stringent:
<https://www.about.us/policies/ustld-nexus-requirements>

Neustar even has a clause prohibiting the creation of a nexus in the United States "conducted solely or primarily to permit it to register for a usTLD domain name".

Thank you for discussing whether a foreigner without a US nexus has additional legitimate options to grudgingly leaving the domain name unregistered.
My understanding is that the 'flexible' version of App Engine runs on the same infrastructure as Cloud Run (and GKE for that matter). IMO running a regular node express app on Node Flexible App Engine isn't that different from running on Cloud Run, and I'm not really using any specific App Engine services (e.g. I don't use datastore, just a regular postgres DB on Cloud SQL). Lets me get up and running quickly with the knowledge I can easily containerize it if needed.
It's not a zero sum game. There are other projects tackling garbage collection and processing on land as well.

> So he doesn't even have a working POC if you factor in costs.

Saying we shouldn't do something because it isn't profitable is what got us into this mess in the first place. Since we've been shitting where we eat, it's about time where we need to start eating our own shit metaphorically. It's better to do this than do nothing. If something more cost efficient comes out in a few years, sure that's great, but we don't quite have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines and waiting/hoping for that to happen.
Indeed. Oxygen is very valuable too, but it should not be expensive for this reason alone. It's abundant, and therefore cheap, and that's a good thing.

Similarly, hypothetically speaking, perhaps teachers are the most valuable profession to society, but if there's plenty of people willing to become a teacher, and plenty capable, there's no reason to reward these people with vast extra sums of money for the sake of their value.

Such a system would lead to extreme inefficient allocations of resources, an oversupply of teachers.

Yes, if teachers are valuable and you can't find people willing or capable to do the job, then by all means, raise their pay. That's the reason I think many teachers deserve more pay. Not because they're intrinsically valuable.
> The carrot-and-stick incentive model doesn't work for fully self-actualized adults.

But for those who could be fully self actualized but arent yet and have to exchange time for food and shelter?
Edit: my bad, the dark mode plugin didn't invert the legend text! Black on dark gray...
The fix is described at <a href="https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/commit/e4b8389b27ce4e76.... it was simple, but elusive because of unsafe assumptions made in the name of performance.

"Put the filename calc back in _connect. Fixes #916

It was moved to __init__ to avoid recalculating, but the directory could
have changed, so we need to wait to do the work. Instead, only do the
relpath on systems that need it (Windows Py 2)."
George Bernard Shaw put it aptly: "the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress, therefore, depends on the unreasonable man."

In other words, if the zeitgeist is ever to change, someone has to go against it, often at personal cost. We should be grateful some people have a compulsion to speak up even when it costs them personally.
> This is one of the few times where being more knowledgeable than the interviewer is also a problem

I have actually found that is pretty much always a problem. If you pull out something the interviewer is unfamiliar with they will often assume you are full of it. I have had such people refuse perfectly good explanations for things they haven't heard of because they assume incompetence before that possibility.
> Well, that is a philosophical question. You could’ve used a bus a saved 1000 kids in Africa or you could’ve bought a car and let them die. Same applies for people in another state or even city. We don’t want to pay for someone’s else cancer treatment.

> We just don’t think about it and most of us just don’t care. I did care more when I was younger, but rose glasses tend to fall when you grow up. I now leaning towards capitalism when I will treat you as bad as the law allows me and extract as much money is possible as it is a fair game.

> Welcome to corporate America.

Why is it that kids in Africa are going to die but not kids in the U.S.? How has such an incredible disparity in wealth come to be? Isn't the incentive structure of private capital ownership a pretty big part in this?
A big part of the problem is the US's annoying penchant for privatization which then means you need a profit motive. There's a revoltion against any kind of program purely for the public good.
Runelite: Add support for macOS-based systems to GPU plugin
Granted, but those are not 1-to-1 to Google Cloud Run mentioned in the article, I normally use Heroku and the typical "production" server for me is comprised of:

- Hobby server, at $7/month

- Database, there are many but add another $5-$15/month

- Redis, either $0/month or $15/month, depending on the needs
The Ministry of Climate Truth cannot be questioned. [flagged]
Probably the “HTTPS Everywhere” browser extension; it has a rule for tldp.org:

https://atlas.eff.org/domains/tldp.org.html
Why mechanical keyboards are becoming more popular among techies
Not to mention that there are other projects focus on stopping garbage creation at the source of consumers with creating garbage collection and processing programs in these 3rd world areas.
The fix was to undo a seemingly safe performance tweak...

From https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/commit/e4b8389b27ce4e76...

"Put the filename calc back in _connect. Fixes #916

It was moved to __init__ to avoid recalculating, but the directory could have changed, so we need to wait to do the work. Instead, only do the relpath on systems that need it (Windows Py 2)."
It's a simple shift of every letter +1.
Has anyone actually been locked out of Gmail because of a google cloud bill? I don't think they are connected in the sense that your Gmail/Youtube/Android etc account will stop working if you don't pay.

Same with Amazon accounts and AWS bills for that matter.

I understand the concern though... and using separate accounts is probably best practice.
It would be nice if fishermen could only use certified nets that costed an hefty fee to encourage strategies to prevent loss of nets and also to provide extra funding to ocean cleanup efforts from the proceeds of these certified nets.
How is Apple getting away with iOS? Unlike Android, you cannot cannot change the default browser, maps, messaging apps or anything.
Farthest galaxy group yet identified: EGS77 dates to 680M-year-old universe
I'm slightly face-blind (have trouble remembering faces) and it is not substituted with any other cues. Also bad at names. Really sometimes I will just get super confused and surprised. It is occasionally embarrassing.
I've been writing a lot of Powershell lately, and my only real gripe with it is that it seems suspiciously like not being Posix compliant in any way was a design goal.

I agree with the idea of breaking backwards compatibility, but Powershell honestly has enough core design issues that it itself is starting to feel like it needs a major backwards-incompatible update.
There's the theory that it's possible to tax land value at 100% (and remove all other taxes), and it'd be a more efficient tax.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Knowing and designing around the unavoidable wave of cheaters is extremely important when building online games.

If you build a multiplayer game then come back to "deal with cheaters" only a few months before launch (or heaven forbid, after launch) you're probably going to end up taking the easy route by using invasion ~~spyware~~ DRM solutions, which don't stop cheaters once it's broken. To contrast, designing the game around cheaters means you might actually implement sane networking design, such as nearly everything being server-authoritative, aka. "never trust the client". If your client is broken in to, the best your cheaters can do is script the game (scripting cheats are currently the only ones available for Dota2 and probably League of Legends) or see a small amount of information that's otherwise unknown (for dota 2 you can see which enemy illusions are fake, for example).

Of course this approach can be taken too far, eg. in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (the new one) sometimes your camera positioning can lag due to packet loss; this probably stops some aimbots but things like camera orientation probably shouldn't be handled server-side.
Among reputable newspapers, journalists and editors are ~independent from business management.

Some years ago, NY Times published a series about online tracking. And said series accurately reported tracking by NY Times.
Thank you for writing this. You've worded it a lot better and more cordial than I could have as I'm really astonished by the level of ignorance in this thread.
This thread has been bad enough that I will.
> I assume that ocean also has a relatively low density of fish altogether

Interesting assumption but false. The places where fish are located is often pretty dense in fish. That is to say, fish are not evenly distributed. They tend to swim in school of fish, and oceans have vast "desert" areas where the bottom is made of sand and very little else.

The Pacific Garbage Patch is interesting target for cleaning because it has a higher density of plastic compared to other areas. The question is if the density is high. Fishing technique has very little insight to give here beyond technology such as radar and echo sounding, but I am uncertain how effective that would be.

Creating an effective device to clean large swathes of low density ocean is going to require novel designs. For high density areas there are divers, and recreational divers are actually one of the current biggest force in cleaning up water around beaches. The problem is that it does not scale.
Try !s (Startpage, which is based on Google’s index)
> Transparency and equal accssibility of data is likely the most viable and just path in the future given that it is between an arms race and outright impossible. It would leave everyone on equal footing essentially and minimize exploitability.

I have argued this in the past, but one must consider that not everyone has the same leverage over that data. While it’s true that open-source can help here, there will always be a gap between personal and corporate data analysis capabilities. It’s not a certainty that those with increased resources now wouldn’t get a first-mover advantage on extracting value from this data, not that sufficient counterbalances would emerge.
I use ddg as my default on laptop(Firefox) and mobile(safari), on SE Asia region.
The basic search results are quite reasonable. The challenge comes when I need specific information, or second level info. It gets quite hard and I end up hitting a !g on private mode. Partly, stackoverflow helps.
I would say 80-85% it is ddg.
Having said that, I also feel ddg has come a long way than how it was 3-4years back and I’ll continue to use it.
If different preferences are related to culture, why are they seen most strongly in the societies that try hardest to eliminate differences between the sexes?

> They observed that the more that women have equal opportunities, the more they differ from men in their preferences.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6412/eaas9899
> What does sending a man to the moon have anything whatsoever to do with whether college education should be free?

raynier is saying it's not clear that more people going to college is better. raynier is certainly not the first person to say that. How it relates to the Moon is that sending a man to the Moon is evidence of scientific progress, and it shows that scientific progress was happening even when many fewer people went to college.
This post is about issue #915 which seems unrelated/still open
I don't understand the comments about it being a revolutionary product. Do americans really not know about all the other cheap mp3 players that came before the ipod?
The people trying to save scents from extinction
That "modest bungalow" might be 50 kilometers away. These "old folks" lose their entire local social network, and perhaps have to buy a car.
Find a US person who registers it for you and who also signs a one-paper/contract to give you full power over the use of the domain. I've done this for an Australian domain once. It might get legally challenged by somebody with a similar brand (I personally doubt that) but better than arguing with a domain squatter who surely will ignore any restrictions.
It is horrifying and it should be illegal to provide so little customer service when you encourage deep, irreplaceable investments into your platform.
I recently asked someone who helped Fog Creek with sales-y stuff about this quote.

He said it had to be taken with the fact that Joel Spolsky's blog in its heyday had a tremendous amount of traffic from developers. He implied that it doesn't universally hold true.
This sounds eerily similar to what happened with mortgages before the recession. This may be naive, but what's the difference here and why would your suggestion not be as dangerous as the tranches sold previously. My understanding is that the system fell because these were being falsely rated, under the presumption that everyone pays off their mortgage. But the issue was that people were taking out mortgages that they could never repay (though they were being sold that they could). This definitely sounds similar to student loans to me.
Of course, and that’s why startups can’t get unsecured loans for $250k at any rate, let alone a reasonable interest rate.
New study finds psychedelics result in lasting increases in nature relatedness
This also assumes that the landfill is properly prepared. An unlined pit leaching chemicals into underground wells isn't that great.
But if you search "mansplaining" on Google scholar now, you'll find plenty of gender studies propagating its use.
Was this comment meant for me? I think the parent commenter used the word "overall" and not "average". I was simply providing a source and not making any sort of argument from it.
Prefer extension via composition for more flexibility than via inheritance, which tends to create overly rigid hierarchies.
I went to school 2008-2012.

Went in state,

lived at home (commuted 2-2.5~ hours twice a day)

lived cheap (no real spending outside of school bills)

Had scholarships which knocked off 50% of the sticker price.

After all that, and the high interest rates at the time on my initial loans it was north of 200k.

My parents helped with food and rent (living at home) but everything else I took a loan off.

I considered my loans heavily predatory and wish I could have done things differently.
It certainly depends on the context, but it's not unheard of for founders to realize their startup isn't experiencing hypergrowth and to shut down the company and return what's left of the money to investors. Usually investors are happy to get some money back versus none.

Of course on the opposite end of the spectrum you have Adam Neumann, who engineered his way to being a billionaire with VC money for a company he seemed pretty happy to jettison once it was convenient to do so.
Another podcast on diverse thoughtful topics that's done in a similar vein: Sean Caroll Mindscape