skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worse, a double digit chunk of population in China not only doesn't believe in Western medicine, but Western medical science as such, like really not believing in microbes...

Unlike the popular notion, it's not only the "cultural revolution generation" of 60+ people. The amount of weird people believing in all kinds of cults, antivaxing, and trying treating cancers with yoga and unicorn poo peak in people in their forties.

China is a picture of society where the type of loonies like "new agers" have won. TCM now gets peddled from Chinese state TV, just like a certain yoga practice was 20 years ago.

When it will pass the boiling point, I feel TCM peddlers will get steamrolled just like them, but that's not gonna happen while Xi is standing in for it. Yes, Xi believes in TCM
> If one checks the tar man page there are no examples.

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar#EXAMPLES

* https://man.openbsd.org/tar#EXAMPLES

* https://illumos.org/man/1/tar#examples

* https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_72/t_com...

* http://osr507doc.sco.com/cgi-bin/man?mansearchword=/usr/man2...

You are clearly very limited in your user manuals. (-:
The way I see it, password auth for db servers is the last-resort protection mechanism.

If you get to the point where it’s what’s protecting your data, you’re already fundamentally screwed.
Can't everybody write to their own user's AppData folder?
Law enforcement, tasked with catching the baddies, always wants more ability to complete their task: more surveillance, more laws, and more firepower. That's as it should be.

The problem is the lack of heavy-weight counter-balance, always demanding more privacy, fewer laws, and less firepower. The best we've got is "the status quo" and a few non-profits (that thankfully are punching way above their weight class).

Without such a counterbalancing agency, each small gain by law enforcement rarely reverts, so rather than oscillating between a bit too much freedom and a bit too much policing we have an arrow moving us steadily toward a police state.
Many Enterprises run critical legacy apps that depend on IE and it's ability to emulate lower versions. Many large orgs would require $100's of millions to rewrite all of them. No one will fund exercise that until the proverbial gun is point at them. 2029 sounds about right.
Clojure.spec: Code is data (not vice versa)
The article points out that MUNI has low ridership due to other issues besides cost, namely frequency, safety and predictability. MUNI scores poorly on all of those, so if making it free to ride MUNI doesn't address those issues, or makes them worse, there won't be an increased interest in riding MUNI. (I'm a little baffled why they don't include speed in that list...it's just brutally slow to go any significant distance in San Francisco. Biking is now the fastest way around much of the city.)
"Can you imagine yourself arguing this in feudalism or the USSR"

You should read about Perestroyka.
> A fascinating set of circumstances led to Internet Explorer’s dominance in Asian markets. First, early browsers had poor support for Unicode and East Asian character sets, forcing website developers to build their own text rendering atop native code plugins (ActiveX). South Korea mandated use of a locally-developed cipher (SEED) for banking transactions, and this cipher was not implemented by browser developers… ActiveX again to the rescue. Finally, since all users were using IE, and were accustomed to installing ActiveX controls, malware started running rampant, so banks and other financial institutions started bundling “security solutions” (aka rootkits) into their ActiveX controls. Every user’s browser was a battlefield with warring native code trying to get the upper hand.

Wow. That's... a rather unconventional security architecture.
“What is my motivation to improve it” is an excellent question in my opinion, and worthy of discussion. I don’t know if I have an answer to it, but I do know that there isn’t really another Wikihow-like place out there that’s better. So at least my default answer would be “improve it because it’s better than starting from scratch.”

I do overall disagree with the thrust of your comment, though: your anecdote and mine cancel each other out. You haven’t been helped; I have! On balance I think they are helpful. I don’t have access to the statistics anymore but from what I remember, more people interacting with the website rated articles positively than not.
Ethan J. Jackson here, Founder/CEO of Kelda, and author of the post.

Thanks for the comment! You are, of course, right, once the initial OCR standard was developed, it acts as sort of a thin-waist under which tons of innovation in container runtimes are possible.

The main goal of the post was to provide a high-level overview for folks new to containers that need a beginning working model on what this stuff is all about. So I elected to omit this (and other) details in the hopes of being a bit easier to grok. But I think you’re right, I could definitely have clarified the point a bit more.
While I can't provide any examples; given we have stories of other biases in algorithms coming out fairly regularly why would ethical bisses be any different?
One of the princes in Holland has over 500 properties in Amsterdam, fat chance anybody would propose something that would hurt that investment.
To be entirely honest, if you know what you're doing and how lets say kube-proxy works in essence, things get pretty easy and simple. If you start every configuration of firewall with iptables -F, you're gonna have an interesting time. However, if you spend some time around these beasts, they are pretty well and logically built and it is trivial to coexist and modify your chains without touching those managed by docker/k8s. There is no black magic/and or wrong with the way they manage the rules. I'm much more angry at proper iptables being moved to iptables-legacy and systemd messing around with my resolv.conf :)
> it is a fact that you're better off taking your advice about ethics from a party that is ethical

Read: Ad hominem arguments are easy so I accept them.
This is sort of like saying "it would be nice to have a concrete proof that P = NP." Determining what's right and wrong is the major endeavor of several entire fields of scholarship. No one can give you the ultimate answer to this question. You can develop your own approximation of the answer by empathizing with other people and reading lots of philosophy, literature, and history.

I think Mozilla is trying to remind techies to think about ethics for this exact reason: a lot of us have this weird mindset where, unless we can define something with mathematical precision, then it doesn't exist and we don't have to worry about it. This is an incredibly unhealthy way to think about ethics, and it's one of the reasons why our field is sliding towards a bad reputation.
I thought Bitcoin can't effectively be mined on CPUs anymore, only some AltCoins that are too difficult to compute with ASICs
Interesting! Fun game too.
Your values, your actual values, are what you do, not what you say that you like because it sounded good on the internet.
I wonder if a low UBI (Universal Basic Income, $1k a month / person) enough for one to 'surive'. If you can quit and survive long enough for a new job before you thrive...you'll most likely say no.
Isn't this behaviour making use of their market power and should be looked at by the antitrust authorities?

Overriding user's preferences with a forced installation of an extension reminds me very much of the old Microsoft I had hoped was gone for good.
Books have about the same amount of semantic information as pdf. It's probably just habit.

I think more than lack of agreement, it's just that there aren't really universal document structures. There's relatively useful chunks like paragraphs that are more or less universal (at least for a given language), but those don't need much structure to be clear.
> I don't know how anyone can have fond memories of a 16-bit CPU with segments or bank switching compared to a modern flat model and think it was simpler.

"Fond memories" is easy to explain if that's what you grew up with. As for simpler, let me play devil's advocate for a bit: our "modern flat model" looks simple until you find out it's not really "flat". The 8086 model is basically "(segment << 4) + offset", while the "modern flat model" is actually a multi-level table lookup.
https://monitor.firefox.com/

this might be something you're looking for.
Migrate to Stripe Billing from Chargebee
> securing access to the pilot's cabin

Well, no, actually it was impossible to get into the cabin from outside long before 9/11 (in fact, I think since the 70’s). The hijackers smuggled box-cutters on board and used the box cutters to kill stewardesses until the pilot agreed to open the door - after which they had full access to the plane.
Wow, that's really remote. Interesting book about a ranch just north of there: https://www.amazon.com/Yamsi-Year-Life-Wilderness-Ranch/dp/B... - you'd probably recognize some of the places in the book.
Banksy and the Triumph of Banality
Interesting, thanks!
Beside finding the general suspicion questionable, I was also curious because asking for debt or a financial background check is (only) OK here in Germany when there is a legitimate interest of the employer, e.g. when someone will be working directly with money (cashier, bank employee, ...) but not for other positions like .. software engineer, hairdresser, you name it.
http://archive.md/lhUeF
GM and Honda unveil self-driving car with no steering wheel or pedals
Is it insane to think that some engineers might have a basic grasp of incredibly powerful and useful tools developed over 40 years ago?

Maybe you're of the opinion we should equip all race cars with fully automatic transmissions, ABS, and rev limiters because it's easier for inexperienced drivers to learn on?

awk is > 40 years old, grep was released almost 45 years ago.

These tools have endured because they work, just like manpages.

TL;DR: It's okay if you have decided to allocate your mental bandwidth elsewhere, but your comments are wholly ignorant.
The title seems a little bit misleading, as they will still have to title the vehicle in another state before transferring it in. Hopefully the new subsidiary will be able to open a service center, though. It seems like that was the largest pain point for Michigan Tesla customers.
That was pretty much the concept for any jobs that allowed it. In fact, the company was apparently taking away desks from people who weren't using them enough. (They could still hotdesk.) But the demand for desks was greater than the supply--even with a lot of office crowding.
I see. I've never heard of that before, thanks for sharing!
Just look at how popular it is to embed/attach arbitrary files to pdf documents.

(it's well supported by Adobe tools...)
Patternism is the only theory of self consistent with materialist reductionism.
On the other hand, I'm completely unsurprised to see archie on the bottom list.
Now the site is not loading at all for me. Oops, there it goes. I think it could be overwhelmed.

I think it just does not have data on smaller towns and cities. I've tried several US smaller cities and nothing works. However, your link does. I can get San Diego and Irvine, CA. But I can't get Redlands or Yucaipa, CA. I can't get Polson, MT (nor Kalispell nor Helena).

Edit: Update - Finally got some data on Polson, MT.
Here’s an IDE for FORTRAN [1] if anyone is interested to write some programs in it.

> A modern Fortran development environment for Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and GNU/Linux systems.

It was quite interesting to read the list of available features [2].

[1] https://simplyfortran.com/

[2] https://simplyfortran.com/features/
Do you mean that there was no crash then or that it won’t happen again?
Regarding 1: Tealdeer provides static binaries for Linux. https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer/
you not only need to identify them but you also need to pay them market rates or something close if you want to retain them. Mozilla is a company with 500 million in revenue. If they pay their CEO 2 million bucks and that CEO has even a moderately positive impact, then that's a completely rational decision.
I'm a big fan of Netlify for simple apps that don't have their own backend API, services, etc. They've done an awesome job of making things really easy.

Our vision with Adapt is to provide that same level of ease of use, but allow it to grow with your app. As your app grows and becomes more complex or as your app's needs change over time, it's easy for Adapt to handle those needs as well, in a way that's independent of any particular cloud or underlying infrastructure technology.
Fair. That does seem overly optimistic.
> so if you've moved into a newly-built home that will have used quite a bit of material to build

I didn't mention the dumpster outside of my house while it was built. I don't know what percentage of materials was wasted, but I doubt it's a multiple.

Anyway, population's rising. We need new homes.
"My bank in China requires Windows + IE + a custom ActiveX control to use their Internet banking. As a result, I don't use it."

Why not have a VM just for internet banking? Surely that's easier than taking the chop out of the safe and waiting in line at the branch.
But Latin changed quite a bit even after it stopped being spoken as a first language. There are courses in reading Medieval Latin because it isn't that close to Classical Latin.

In regard to Fortran, things are changing too. There's even a Fortran 2018 standard, which is fairly close to Fortran 2008, but would be almost unrecognizable to people who learned Fortran 77 or earlier.
Really enjoying the myspace music player. Kudos.
Thanks for these great links! Terry seems to have a penchant for alternative hypotheses, and a refreshingly entertaining style of presentation.
Please don't copy/paste comments on HN. It lowers the signal/noise ratio and makes for pain when we go to merge duplicate threads. If you want to refer to something you posted elsewhere, please use a link.

Better still, when you see a split discussion, email hn@ycombinator.com so we can merge them. We'll make sure your comment ends up in the winning thread.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
TCM, I assume, means Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Ask HN: Is there a search engine that allows user blacklisting of domains?
There are certain websites with a propensity for spewing garbage that matches nearly everything I search for about a particular topic. I try my best to keep a mental blacklist of these sites, but, well, you can imagine how that goes...
It's like, if they are sorry about/regret doing those privacy invasions, are they also going to donate some of the money they made to people implementing privacy solutions or something else? Probably no, right?

Easy to talk, but hard to deny all that money
Fortran On Fighter-Jets
Well, yes, but "effective" is context-dependent.

If you have a million computers mining for you, and you're not paying their electricity, it doesn't really matter how individually efficient they are.
From a strictly mathematical view, yeah. Requiring that certain character classes exist in the password will shrink the search space for that password.

But: (1) only a tiny teeny little bit, and (2) the gains in password complexity are probably worth a lot more.

Imagine you have a site that allows numeric PINs between 4 and 6 digits. And another site that requires exactly 6 digits.

Technically, the search space is larger for the first site. An attacker would have 1,110,000 possible codes to check, whereas the 2nd site has 1,000,000. But ensuring that all users are in the 1,000,000 search space is worth it to prevent some users' 4-digit PINs being cracked.
There will be corrections, local crashes, but global crash is very unlikely. Land is one of the few resources that's 100% constrained in the world - we can have renewable energy, plant trees, produce drinking water, etc. But land - nope (except for very small areas of artificial islands/peninsulas, but that's insanely expensive, and also - limited). At the same time - world population is still growing, and people are being lifted out of poverty results in more of them moving to the urban areas, and increasing demand for the land there.

In high cost areas most of the value is in the land, not the house.
what are you saying here? you would argue that cabin should not be secure, so as to guard against a hypothetical attacker who completes professional pilot certification and gets a job as a copilot for the sake of (hopefully) overcoming the captain 1 versus 1 and brings down the plane?

because that seems ridiculous
Telegram rolled a fix right after the hijack trick was publicly known. Now, you can receive a verification code as a telephone call only if you have 2FA enabled in your Telegram account.
Well, ok, I have taken it a bit too far. Anything you can use or sell is technically an asset, even if it's more expensive to maintain than you would get on a sale (so even boats qualify).

But policy should never treat it as an asset. For policy, it should be a consumable good that only happens to take a very long time to consume.
So Long: A Common but Mysterious Goodbye
The Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax (COST) [1] might be at least part of a solution.

1. http://radicalmarkets.com/chapters/property-is-monopoly/
No. Watch this:

https://youtu.be/mp8chvACVBk
Thanks for the shoutout :) It's funny that my weekend project that I wrote to learn Rust suddenly has almost 500 stars on GitHub...
There was the design I did quite a few years ago now. Grabbed a old design, changed the board shape, put a third I2C device on. Everything powered up beautifully first go... and it was only then we worked out two of the devices from different vendors had the same I2C address. <facepalm>
Latin was in use by the Church well into the 20th century, until the Second Vatican Council in 1962.
The state, much like corporations, are operated by individuals but are not really "made up of" individuals in the way that your statement implies. They are machines that have their own goals, interests, and methods that are distinct from those of any of the individuals who help operate them.
Is there a platform for matching contributors with existing projects?

I'm developing one of my projects[1] in public from day one, and I would love to collaborate with some people someday. Rcently, I was thinking about moving my private project tasks into GitHub issues and using tags like "good first issue" and "hacktoberfest". But I am not sure if this alone will attract people that want to really drive the project forward instead of "just" solving one task.

On the other hand, I know people who are looking for a project like this to contribute, but they simply are not interested in mine. So I can sense some need for a tool for project owners to post their projects and for other people to find one to contribute.

[1] https://github.com/darekkay/dashboard
FWIW, my company, TrueFire, is one of the industry leaders in music education. We were bootstrapped, focused on a niche of the market first (intermediate to advanced video lessons for blues, jazz, etc = older men with expendable income), and have grown steadily since then. We were just acquired by a private equity firm and merged with another big competitor in the space (JamPlay) to form a new company dedicated to dominating this space. So... it is possible to not go the VC route and be (very) successful, albeit not $Bs.
Wow. This sounds intense and interesting. However I will stick to C++ but it is great to see power languages up and ready for new generations of hardware, software and people.
Most ethics is just the strategy of a bunch of intellectuals to reach for some power. Since ethics are not based on actual "laws" of the universe, they are just people making up laws. Those people want power, that's all.

As an example, since they mention "helping the ICE", this Mozilla pamphlet is basically just motivated by "orange man bad".
>You always need to pay for like 40% of the house to start a mortgage anyway

in the united states, literally the exact opposite is true. you can get a mortgage with almost nothing as a down payment. By agreeing to take on PMI, private mortgage insurance, you can get federal loans with something like a 3-3.5% down payment
I tend to agree with you. Land and housing are still very cheap in rural towns in the midwest - they've moved no more than 2% / year or close to the reported inflation rate.

So why are homes so expensive in urban areas, including now tier 2 and tier 3 cities, and not just NYC, DC, and SF?

Look at our population growth. In the 'good times' of the 1960s, we had 180M people. Now we have double that in two generations, or the difference between Boomers and Millenials approximately. In 1960, places like SF and Arlington, VA weren't rural farmland, they were still urban areas. We now have higher density in the large cities due to jobs having moved there, so we probably have 3x the number of people desiring homes in the same area as we had in 1960.

And families are smaller now. In 1960, you'd have a family of 5 in one house. Now you need two houses for the two 2.5 / person families.

So essentially we've probably got 4x the demand for the homes close to working centers, along with rising base prices due to far more women in the workforce. Add perpetual low interest rates, underreported inflation, and I'm surprised houses aren't at SF levels in every city yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_the_Uni...
Since this comment was copied at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22120593, we haven't moved it.
I remember that Sheldon Brown was very critical of airless tires:

https://sheldonbrown.com/tires.html#airless

Maybe this new design will bypass some of his traditional criticisms; it looks like it's not very similar to old airless tires.
Anyone have experience switching from Ubuntu to GhostBSD? If so, what headaches/bumps did you encounter?
Today we hide behind computers and algorithms to do the "dirty job"
Did you know Khao San Road has a data economy?
This sounds like a first-world comment, those open-air markets form because the merchants are subsistence farmers or people living outside the city without a lot of money and have to travel into the city. The farming in China isn't as industrialized or corporatized as in America and you will encounter poorer farmers or small traders who basically sell at these markets without having to spend a lot of money
for rent because it isn't a high-margin business. Think farmers' market but filled with poor farmers. These merchants aren't forming open-air markets for fun, it's because they have to. If you force them out, then you will end up destroying poor people's lives.

The food and grocery companies in China who are selling in supermarkets are already in the supermarkets.

EDIT: I dislike eating 'exotic' meats and discourage the practice, however there's a fine line when you enforce the ban live animal market policy. Note that it has been enacted in Wuhan when the disease started. I also support stronger regulations and animal protections on these live animal markets and am not deflecting blame from these live animal markets but straight-up banning is not the right solution.
No you wouldn't. Statistically, you would probably be just as racist as everyone else.
To fetch the roads I use overpass turbo API. They are sometimes slow and timeout and sometimes limit amount of requests that we can send. So I found three endpoints of overpass turbo and rotate between them: in case when one fails I go to the next one. If none was able to handle the request, I bail out and show the error.

That said, I also cached 3,000 cities with population over 100k citizens and try the cache first, before going to overpass. That may be the reason why it is fast in some cases and slow in others.

By the way if someone has more stable/fast overpass endpoints - I will be happy to add them to the list!
Also of note: asymptomatic carriers like Typhoid Mary: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon