skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True.

But at least I'm not tracked so readily.

Also, I don't care so much about my meatspace name and email. There's absolutely nothing interesting about me in meatspace.

I'm not sure what I'd do if I actually needed a smartphone. Maybe I'd go with a PinePhone, with cellular and WiFi turned off, and external routers. Hopefully someone will come out with small routers.

But on the other hand, maybe that would attract too much attention. So perhaps a basic smartphone would be better.
We're not talking about shares of Apple, we're talking about who effectively controls LLCs and other corporations that are primarily used to shield the owners of real estate.. Your 23 shares of AAPL don't grant you effective control over Apple so it's not relevant.
Whose bridge would be better to drive over?
> There is public benefit

is there?

IF you're a celebrity, your place of residence could be identified if these records are public (just takes time/work to collate/search the data).

If you want to hide the property from your spouse in a divorce, the data may compromise it and force you to lose the property in a settlement.

I can see that the data is useful in some circumstances, but i feel the data should be available only for law-enforcement purposes (and taxation purposes), not available for general inquiry.
>"DuckDuckGo will soon be offered as an option for default search engine on Android devices across the EU."

"[...] option for default [...]"
I'll second this recommendation. Every episode so far has been top notch! I really hope they are able to keep the quality bar high as they continue to make episodes.
It's probably just oversight by web devs.
"Why are engineers so narrow-minded?"

or should it be

Why do narrow-minded people become engineers....

Also it is not really a fact, there might be a trend but not a universal fact.
> The issue is that society has a fairly strict range within which social, psychological, and physical features are considered attractive, and some subpopulation will always fall outside of these norms - but how society values these outliers

I know a few incels and their social value (intended a sum of "social, psychological, and physical features") is not related to their issue.

There's not doubt that for a certain amount of people the illness could be very directly induced, but as a form of anxiety, the reasons are typically deeper.
Seems like a huge omission to jump from

>May (2nd week) Hired the first employee on the team

immediately to

>Oct (4th week) Launched iPod to the world
GP was talking about "anonymous ownership of companies". That's exactly what me owning shares of AAPL is.

(Parent post was substantially edited after this comment, so it makes less sense now.)
Bear in mind that A/B testing of prices may not be legal in some countries/jurisdictions.
That's generally true of unsecured debt, and therefore not a reason for student debt to be treated differently than other unsecured debt.
US net international investment position is at -$11T: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IIPUSNETIQ

That's ~50% of GDP.

Worrying about a few homes here and there is quite pointless against this backdrop.
Meanwhile, at least in the modern US, "walkie talkie" is the name of the handheld unit and "handie talkie" would get weird looks because it's not really known.
Giving? Who is giving?
So you're switching among the Debian Almquist, Bourne Again, FreeBSD Almquist, PD Korn, and Z shells. Surely you could find some way of working the Watanabe, MirBSD Korn, BusyBox Almquist, and Mashey shells into the mix, too? (-:
How does that get reconciled with the consistently reproduced [0] ~15 point racial IQ gap in the US, since I was under the impression that the SAT was mostly a shitty IQ test only valid for HS graduates? I find it hard to believe that a test like Raven's Progressive Matrices [1] would discriminate against people more familiar with AAVE, even if the others would.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence#United_S...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices
You're doing it wrong: if _they_ want to change something that affects you, _they_ should be the ones doing the work to not break you. The situations where _you_ have to do anything more than a code review of such changes should be very rare. That's how it works at Google.

And besides, it's not like this gets any easier if you have multiple repos. Eventually you have to roll forward your dependencies, and doing the work that goes along with that.
> Appeal to authority rather than logic, that's how "analytical" or engineers think.

This describes a large fraction of engineers I've worked with. I think the popular media would portray this as "analytical" when it's anything but.

I don't think this has much to do with the training of engineers and instead reflects natural tendencies of most people to take the easy route. "Passing the buck" to some established authority is simply easier. And it works most of the time. Unfortunately the "appeal to authority" types often drown out the actual analytical folks, so when there's a problem with the authorities, little happens.
The problem with "good prospects of replaying" / full-knowledge lending (and what the system was originally intended to prevent) is that the best lendees are wealthy students from socioeconomic groups with good employment prospects.

I'm not one to toot on the SJW train, but it's likely inefficient (and certainly unjust) if we encode existing economic biases into our primary method of access to educational capital.
The word "default" is used a bit weirdly in Chrome. The "default search engines" are ones intended to provide search to the omni bar; as opposed to other search engines which Chrome just picks up passively when you browse the web (often these are suggested when you start typing).
But first back it up in the present state in case anything goes wrong.
Which Western country uses their military surveillance to decrease the security of its dissidents? I can't find such as case, while I can find many cases of surveillance used to stop tragedy. Seems like military surveillance in the West is predominantly used correctly: to counter terrorism and illegal crime.

Sharing military surveillance mitigation tricks is not unlike sharing 0-days against government systems, and can be seen as unethical and counterproductive: Military surveillance will try to improve their systems, and bad people will use it to avoid surveillance.

It is too simplistic to deem any and all surveillance as inherently bad and invasive. No country can ensure the safety of its tax payers if it cripples their counterintelligence, foreign intelligence, border security, counterterrorism.

People who deem national security as more important than individual security, or the security of anti-nation dissidents, or people living outside the legally approved modes, should be applauded. It is not very nice to decrease the security of me and my family to obtain an ideological goal.
One aspect of go error handling that still really bothers me is how easy it is to accidentally drop an error on the floor.

If you strap all the linters you can find onto your build system, you can catch the most obvious cases. But I still frequently find mishandled errors that sneak past the linters in ways that can't be solved without restricting the way devs use the language.

By making error handling something you have to deal with every time you call a function, you massively increase the number of opportunities you have for screwing it up.

I would love something like rusts ? Operator for go. You could choose to not use it when you need special handling. But it would be rare and exciting and developers would use it with care.
Modelling is not just a matter of removing irrelevant detail. It is also about identifying and isolating the different dynamical systems that are at play so that we can build an intuition for how a complex system behaves.

Even if the factors that you are describing are important to the overall outcome, it may still be useful to explore a model with those factors removed.
Mass Evacuation Underway in German City over WWII Bombs
Unsecured loans are everywhere, the fact that there are no assets to seize after the fact is poor justification for lack of a bankruptcy discharge.

If your logic followed, credit card debt would also be impossible to discharge.
Graduate high school, take student loan, get a bunch of junk credit cards, go on a spending spree, have fun in college and maybe get a degree out of it. At the end of it, declare bankruptcy. You ruin your credit, but you didn't really have any to begin with, and you end up with a degree that can't be taken away. Get a job and by the time you hit your 30s you will be right as rain. (still a bad idea, but its the thought process)
Society gets what society pays for: people don't like creative engineers because they don't always solve the problem you want them to solve (they might discover a more important/interesting one and jump to that instead; or maybe discover they have a cool interesting solution... and maybe decide to create a new problem for that solution etc.) and they tend to get bored easily (and may appear lazy) and they are not controllable ("if I can imagine it AND make, why do I need the boss for?") and they also tend to get just a tad bit power hungry (think Zuck, Page etc.)...

So we're optimizing for "engineers that are not too creative" and "artists that are not too technical" because these are the kinds of cogs that fit well in our current organizational machines. And then we have the first read "how to be more creative" books/articles, and the latter "how to be more structured" books/articles.

And most good engineers learn to hide their creativity and focus on showing off effectiveness. Sometimes we even post-hoc invent elaborate ultra-logical explanation for why out intuitions and preferences must be correct in order to sell them. Also, creativity in engineering lowers efficiency and safety, so nobody would be willing to pay more to get less of these two. And if god forbid you are one of those creative-engineers that openly declares he/she "doesn't really give a f about either efficiency or safety, only engineering new and novel stuff that never existed before" you'd have to tapper it off with an "I'm joking" or nobody will want to work with you again :)

I'd love to see a rise of the techno-creatives, but in general organizations hate or fear us, so we keep disguising ourselves as either "engineers" or "artists" or "entrepreneurs", sometimes switching hats depending on the crowd/situation. Oh, and purely business oriented people tend to equate a volatility loving creative-engineer with a psycho with a chainsaw in one hand and a flask of gasoline in another, so it helps to never be too honest with these guys either.

Many engineers and other technical people are so narrow-minded because that's what our society rewards in these fields! Change the reward system if you want different results!
Thanks, that makes sense.

But I'm still not clear on how I require "example.py" and mount it (ie how do I make an wsgi instance from a python file that is a bottle app)?
Fixed with: https://kaffeine.herokuapp.com
You should check out Georgism/Land Value Tax if you’re not already familiar with it. This comment is spot on.
I have a friend who used to be a hairdresser. Some of his customers flew across the Atlantic to Europe to get a haircut... maybe not a million dollars for a burger, but thousands for a haircut, and at least a few days spent.
Nope, violates 1st amendment.
> depends what you mean by solid legal ground then

I'm referring to having confidence that using OpenJDK, in the absence of any licensing agreement with Oracle, will not land your company in legal trouble.

I'm not seeing an ambiguity in my use of solid legal ground.

> Nobody is / should be seriously concerned by using the open source OpenZFS modules with their Linux distro of choice.

Linus isn't convinced that it's legally safe to do this, and neither are some people in this thread, myself included.

It may be true that even Oracle are unlikely to go after you for using ZFS from Linux, but if it's not safe enough for Linus, it's probably not safe enough for the legal departments of large companies.
Why is that a problem to be solved to go socratic about it?

A single extra home rental being less profitable will exist "naturally" as a matter of economies of scale essentially with fixed cost component redundancy.

Income inequality and imbalance of market influence (if one person owns 90% of real estate their high level of control can't even be called disproportionate because they actually do have that large of a stake) seem like issues better addressed by straightforward income taxation and antitrust respectively.
> You can't even see other users' names.

You do see their first/given name for identification on pickup.
Meet Brittany Kaiser, Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower
I'm not sure how mainstream of an opinion this is, but I'd suggest skipping Google's own tutorials. It would be reasonable to suppose that a multi-billion-dollar corporation that massively benefits from a thriving developer community would put out first-rate documentation, but I was quite disappointed by how much of an inconsistent and incomplete mess those tutorials are.

While I've only briefly skimmed it myself, I've heard a lot of good things about The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development. Newer editions require a $20 "subscription", but older ones are available for free [1].

[1] https://commonsware.com/Android/4-2-free
The Hidden Forces podcast is excellent
>I can tell you that nothing we have ever done at Fog Creek has increased our revenue more than releasing a new version with more features.

That may be true for Joe Spolsky. But he is one of the highest profile software people in the world. The 99.9999% of us who are less famous should probably spend more time on marketing.
Not sure why an entitled white boy calling out his peers is flamebait, but ok.
I did know a guy who was on a neighboring-state subsidized grant for a nuclear engineering major... and only taking classes in humanities while summering abroad in France.

Not sure how that ended for him, but hopefully poorly?

(The program was originated as that state didn't have a NucE program, so found it cheaper to pay them to go somewhere else than run its own)
Is anyone familiar with pros/cons vs. AWS ecs?

I've used ECS a few times, it's pretty nice.

https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/
Be careful, your comment has turned grey. Wrongthink is being thunk by you.
Physical and data structure of 3D genome
Land is finite resource nobody created. It is one of the ridiculous things we put up for ownership.
The rule around bankruptcy is basically a trade off to make the loans more accessible.

No bankruptcy rule and many loans would never be made and the ones that would be, would have crazy high interest rates.
Can we please have an informative title?

Bug #915: Please help tells me nothing.
The body text is all still there. It’s just being hidden by some piece of JavaScript that reader view ignores.
Apparently businesses don't use rolling distro.

You don't want your PHP version to endlessly get updated during your operation when you build your app at a specific version.

It would mean not only you have to take care of distro update gotchas but you have to go through all the breaking changes the language introduces.

Stick with LTS. Rolling is for enthusiasts, though Arch does have put decent efforts on their wiki but I did find errors on minor pages that didn't make it work as written.
yep, multi-cloud https://zeit.co/docs/v2/network/regions-and-providers/

You can specify where to deploy to in a config file. Pretty cool stuff.
This has kind of been true in some sections of society for a while now, hasn't it? In the places where corporations have gutted and displaced the humanity that you used to be able to find. I've certainly seen and experienced the lack of humanity (a lack of empathy is probably the way that I'd describe it) explained away as, "Well, that's store policy, sir." for decades. I don't see that going anywhere in the future. I agree with the OP that we can just expect to deal with more and more of this in our lives.

As an anecdote, just this past week, at our local Target, my wife dealt with a similar situation around getting an exceedingly minor situation resolved. As part of a larger online order, we needed to get some lotion for our (< 1 years old) twins. We received the right brand and type of lotion but not the child version of the product that we ordered. My wife realized the error at the car, before driving home, thankfully, and so she went back inside to get it resolved. "I can't do that. The system requires 24 hours to pass from such and such arbitrary moment in your transaction." or whatever. My wife had to stand her ground, arguing with the employee about the issue, about how she needs it _today_, because one of our girls has eczema, it's being exacerbated by the dry winter weather, and we ran out of the same lotion this morning. That she doesn't have time to run through the store to find it, wait in line to buy it, and then for one of us to have to come back tomorrow still to process a return for an incorrect item through no fault of our own.

She did get it resolved, but it took corralling a small set of managers and then the store manager to do an override of some sort. Over 20 minutes of my wife's time on a work day, after work hours, and when we have these very young twins at home. We were trying to save time and instead it cost us. Because of "the system.", etc...
Do you own any property this way?
> however they are secured debt so if you discharge the debt you have to give up the asset

As the parent said, mortgages are secured debt.

Education loans are _unsecured_ debt.

The difference between secured and unsecured debt is whether exists an underlying asset or assets for the bank to repossess.

So, no, your degree will not be repossessed.
How much and how often do you take? I think you need to create a base level of "just do it" yourself before relying on it.

Usually once a week or two is plenty to keep the flow going.
1985 Mexico City Earthquake
"The Fight for a True Democracy," from 1619. I've felt recently that feeling patriotic for my country (America) doesn't line up with my moral views. This podcast convinced me otherwise.

The series as a whole is about the history of chattel slavery in America. It does an amazing job of blending the personal and economic narratives together into a cohesive story.
Brazil eliminated daylight saving time and people aren’t happy
Borrowing from the labeling for health care, Universal Public Education might make sense. Of course, then you'd have to contend with all the people rabidly against Universal Health Care, by association.
Indeed. Maybe my English skills are fading with time, but my impression was that it works there because it's unclear who you're talking about. "Some other" is singular, but multiple people could have noticed that so it makes sense to use the plural there. It's kind of like how in American English they say "France _has_ won the WC", but in British English they say "France _have_ won the WC" (because a team has multiple people).

But saying "The boss fired me. They are awful." sounds no different than "The boss fired me. He are awful." or "They is awful." My auto parser is failing and I have to think it through.
I really like this idea. It has a fun element, which the subject desperately needs. Could be like the Ig Nobel prize[0], but for products/inventions that do the most harm, that make the world a worse place. Although I guess people wouldn't turn up to accept their prize. Maybe something like it already exists?

[0] which celebrates "unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research", mostly papers with totally absurd-sounding titles. https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/

The associated Luxuriant Flowing Hair Clubs for Scientists is possibly even more awesome. https://www.improbable.com/hair/
I miss the 6-month iPod release cycle: every September there would be a new full size iPod, and every February there'd be a new Mini or Nano.

Is there anyone else from the old iPodLinux community here? I was actively moderating the forums in 2005, and fixing countless iPods for friends at school/church. These days it seems like everybody's moved to Rockbox. I'm still using a 5.5G with a Kingspec SSD, and lots more gadgets fitted into the space where the HDD used to be.

My favourite story from the iPodLinux days was cracking the 4G firmware. leachbj could only make the piezo work, but nilss then used that to dump the binary by making click noises in a soundproof box, and successfully reverse-engineered the rest of the firmware from that.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140810083116/http://www.newsci...
> Can we stop calling it "free"? It is never free unless everyone is doing the work for $0

Can we stop pretending this point is insightful? Nobody thinks a free lunch is truly free.
I can't say it's "only" $1071/month. I definitely wouldn't go broke because of it though. Especially if it's only a side project I probably would look for ways to reduce cost for subsequent months.

I don't know how optimizing comes into the equation. The app you build and deploy to Google Run leverages their infrastructure. A fiber optic cross (with just one telecommunications company) connect would cost probably close to $1000/month alone, but Google is probably peered with every telecommunications company in the entire world, and they don't have just one fiber optic line connecting to each of them. So, it's not really a one-time optimization when you put your work on Google. It's like I would be paying Google $1071 to rent the infrastructure of their entire network to receive and distribute data in my name.
That's fair! Data on who women respond to would be helpful here, but that would have to somehow be disentangled from messages in the form of "fuck off, creep".
At this point, the IR glasses mostly flag you as unusual.

The other privacy tools that you mention are all online. And, I argue, that's the only option now for anonymity.

I mean, how do you get around DNA testing?
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12330462

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9182332

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7297195

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6351681

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6102782

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5817713
Antepenultimate is a great word because of the antepenultimate rule, which is that in English, the antepenultimate syllable is (usually) the one to stress in a polysyllabic word.

The an-te-pen-UL-ti-mate rule. Makes it easy to remember!
Why don't renters own their own property? Lack of capital to build or buy. Guess who has the capital and uses it to establish the supply of rentals either directly by building or indirectly by paying someone who built it and enabling them to build more?

Even if you think the perpetuation of capital unfair the realities need to be acknowledged in order to even begin to think of a viable alternative.
Have we got a clever word for rejecting one cause in favor of another? ”Whataboutism“ seems to miss the mark here.

The world is a big place, there are a lot of things that contribute to problems. I dunno why so many people think there is one way to solve them, or that pursuit of that priority should obviate all others.

For one, what if you’re wrong? If you haven’t hedged your bets you have to start from scratch, maybe undo what you’ve done first. Big problems require many solutions, not big solutions.

I mean, I don’t personally see how they’ll ever get the numbers to work, but you can’t have a marketplace for ideas and then evict everyone. There are some ideas that are similar to these that seem to actually work already, like the giant mesh bags over drain pipes. Who knows where inspiration will come from.