skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a mistaken idea that community is about repaying.

We're not in a just world, the community is supposed to be about bettering everyone, but of course there are traps like sports or people who ignore it.

The honest rule is to pay back more as your ability to increases.

The teacher does not have to be directly paid back by his students, it is enough that some of them will produce a generalized return, trickling down and around.

However, we're all too local for that to really work. Hence witness flight from cheap or rural areas to cities, draining resources.

None of this requires conflict. It just requires pure indifference. Teams can cooperate too.
What does "worth it" mean in this context? It is rather subjective. Also, what does "40% less savings" mean? 40% less to invest after taxes and cost of living? Is it 40% of 100 dollars/pounds per month or 5000?

Without really knowing what you value and what you gain or loose, it is impossible for someone else to say if it is worth it for you.
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Do all aluminum cans have a lining? Or is it only needed for acidic drinks like cola?
My (limited) understanding is that the Constitution does extend to non-citizens in many circumstances. Those are the ones that state rights of a "person" rather than "citizen".

E.g., "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
Complexity matters. Python originally had success because it was easy to use. It was one of the first languages I learned after C++ to just get stuff done.

People are not leaving Python for Haskell, Rust, Swift and Scala because those languages are too complex to deal with.

However what we see time and again is that languages that are easy to use and which offer real advantages gain adoption. Look at the rising popularity of Go as a good example.

This is why I belive Julia has a real chance against Python. It hits all the right checkboxes: It is easy to learn, simple tools, while also being highly productive and giving great performance.

Sure Python is not suddenly going to get knocked off the crown. But the fact is that Julia has far more growth potential. Packages are built faster as there is no need for C/C++. Packages are combined way easier due to multiple dispatch and lack of C/C++ dependency. This is a hard one to explain in a short text but Julia has a unique ability in how packages can easily combine. Hence with a couple of Julia packages you get squeeze out the same functionality as a dozen Python packages.
When a pandemic or epidemy is in full swing the answer seems rather obvious.
There have been ads for over a decade, but they didn’t appear within the interface as if they were mail.
I think GP is asking whether these are limits in government as compared to all people or limits against only US citizens.
Some of these suggestions are just settings. For example, you can turn off the Hangouts integration and turn off the tabs.

I like some of the others, such as turning off ads and widening lines.

One odd thing... I don't think I've ever seen ads. Maybe my ad blocker is clearing those for me already.
Jobs, Cook, Ive–Blevins? The Rise of Apple’s Cost Cutter
Is there anyone else who has problems with medium.com? :/
> But I think the main problem with the car industry, is that if they start making aerodynamically efficient cars, they will all look the same, and nobody will by them.

I don't think this is as true as people think. look at high-end sports cars. they're all designed for low drag (although downforce components add some of that back) but they have very distinctive designs. other than the badges and grilles, most economy sedans already look pretty much the same anyway.

> And if they make efficient, low power and cheap cars nobody will buy the powerful and expensive ones.

I don't think this is true either. cars like the Honda fit already exist, but that doesn't stop people from buying Porsches. anecdotally, I've noticed something of a bimodal distribution in car buyers. people either buy the cheapest thing that fits their use case or the nicest car they can afford. I don't see why that would change if the bottom went even lower.
i think he rather means that you should pick a new task on your own, where - if you're "a good soldier" - you'd pick the most important task yourself.

that said, i, too, don't agree with this article at all.
Can't a US citizen be prosecuted by the US for a crime in a foreign country?
OP is probably asking some variation of why not build them on a canal rather than literally right on the coast, Fukishima-style.

Part of the problem is the components are very large and very heavy even for industrial projects and coasts have barges and seaports.

Some parts are too heavy even for railroad shipment, so its barge and crane or expensively fabricate on site, or expensively assemble on site.

Its quite a logistical headache to build a large nuclear reactor. Yes, submarine scale plants are petite, but GW-class baseline generators have very large and heavy parts.

WRT to Fukishima, its probably cheaper and more efficient from an engineering perspective to build a massive seawall than an unblockable long canal. The effort and concrete required to build an unblockable kilometer long canal that would survive a 30m tsunami would probably survive a 100m tsunami if put into a seawall instead. Or more likely, management would only permit a 10m rated seawall (or canal) "because that'll never happen" and we all know how that turned out.
three birds
GMail has ads?
Never noticed so UBlock origin did its job well

I find the GMail UX to be a simple for basic tasks e.g. opening an email
But anything more is rather annoying
I'm using the SSM Parameter Store [0] a lot, because of its easy integration in applications – many services can directly pull secrets from it and provide them as environment variables. The secrets can be KMS encrypted and cost a fraction of the Secrets Manager, which I think is just the parameter store with secrets being rotated by a Lambda.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...
This is exactly the opposite of complex infrastructure. They're reducing a hospital down to the essentials: beds under a roof. If it weren't winter, they could've gotten away with just using tents, too.
> But also it's curious that so many people feel like they have it.

My hypothesis: ADHD is defined as X out of Y listed symptoms, almost all of which people experience in some way at some points in their lives. The difference is between "I sometimes have problems with some of these things" vs. "I have significant problems with many of these to the point where it is a big and constant problem in my daily life and causes me great pain".

So people who sometimes have trouble focusing see that it's on the ADHD list and take up this soft position of "Maybe I have ADHD" or jokingly talk about probably having a little ADHD or something like that.

It's the same with OCD. How many people have you seen on Reddit confess to having OCD or OCD-lite or "probably OCD" etc.? A lot more than the official diagnosis statistics right.

I don't think it's because Reddit creates OCD symptoms though.
I have the same attitude, and it's good to try to counteract it a bit, but I have found that this attitude can be a great asset when paired with other people who are a bit more on the optimistic side; as long as both parties are willing to listen to each other.
Sex trafficking still exists where prostitution is legal. Nice try.
The pain of maintaining this long term (look at those CSS identifiers with jibberish names, you know those aren't set in stone) is going to be worse than the pain of adapting to crappy Gmail.

You know what else sucks about Gmail, other than just the design?

* There's no option to consolidate multiple emails into a single thread (so you're at the whim of the sender to maintain the same thread)

* There's no "Send after X duration" or "Send at X time", so you can't write something at 3am and schedule it to be sent during work hours.
[Edit: I stand corrected, there is a Scheduled Send option now]

* There's no way to add private notes to email threads. So if I'm told something over the phone which is relevant to the email conversation (but private), I have to dump it into some other notes app where I'll lose it.
[Edit: No, confidential mode is not what I'm looking for]

I've said the same thing about FastMail before, these email guys SUCK at innovation.

The only thing good about Gmail is the spam detection and the superior deliverability of using a Gmail address.
Not exactly, the the correct obvious admission is that Linux is a better Windows, as an extra translation layer for Win32 API to Linux/POSIX still has better performance (most games I play on Proton) than native Windows.
Tangential: Reading to my children has been one of the unexpected joys of raising them, the oldest is now ten and I still typically read to her for 30-45 minutes a night. It gives me a chance to revisit books I enjoyed decades ago and compare her reactions to my own at that age and now and it gives us a broad and deep shared world beyond the day-to-day (one of the biggest arguments for reading "the classics" IMO is that it allows you to tap into a longer and deeper cultural conversation than we typically have access to via more contemporary cultural products).
oh my god i do miss inbox! funny how time flies because i even almost forgot about it. what i miss most is the auto grouping (tagging? or whatever it was called) and the one column layout. i found it less distracting. never had the sidebar opened!

inbox was email that simply worked. never got in your way. not for the "pros", that's what gmail is for. it had its place. and yet...
I also find this hard to believe. We use similar alphabet learning apps with my 15 month old, who is progressing very well in other aspects, but she has not yet grasped the alphabet.
What's always struck me is how large the Dutch Wikipedia is (1,992,551 articles), given the relatively low number of people that speak that language. They would appear to be a pretty tech-savvy/well-connected nation.

It's certainly consistent with the number of comments that I see here on HN that start with some variation on "Here in the Netherlands...".
> the younger generation is shooting themselves in the foot with not being able to assimilate information by reading any more

The old myth that successive generations bring themselves up by their own bootstraps. I'll never understand how this nonsense persists.
Because every tool has limitations, and even if you think your tool can't/shouldn't necessarily be changed you still need to be aware of its gotchas to use it effectively.
They miss Baumol cost disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease

Basically there haven't been major productivity increases in construction.
At least in Europe, because of the rather restricted parking space, it makes a lot of sense to really think about the needs. I use a small car to drive to work in the city which will soon be replaced by an even smaller electric car, because usually it is only me and one daughter in it.
My wife, in comparison, has a 7-seater Minivan. Its outside dimensions are still smaller than a BMW 3-Series (except height) which is used every day with at least 4 seats filled, often 5 or 6. Due to its relative compactedness, it still fits into all parking spaces.

We really gave a lot of thought into which cars we have. There was the initial impulse to spend good money on an SUV, too. But then, after rational thinking, we did not take that path.
We aren't victims. But we are rather hemmed in by circumstances and budget with the exception of top 0.5%.

Feel like working 8h today? No? Too bad.

Need rest for mental reasons? Sorry you're out of holidays.

Want to work on rocket science? Unfortunately no positions are open and the longer you're out, the less likely you will get in. That if you even studied the right things.

Or maybe you feel like being a fireman but failing the physicals?

Perhaps a doctor? But you need those 6 years of education plus actual knowledge. And this have to weather those years. If you're not rich, you get to work some trash job in the meantime hoping it won't affect you or the studies.
Etc.

And do not even get me started on social network you cannot begin to choose unless you have copious free time.
"Simplify was made by me, Michael Leggett. I was Gmail's lead designer from 2008 to 2012 and co-founded Google Inbox."

I suppose there's not going to be a better "make Gmail look like Inbox" solution than this.
Yeah I should probably have clarified.

It seems like such a dark pattern. It's astoundingly evil to me.
> Wanted or no, it is the end result you will get.

Surely you can substantiate that claim?
In NYC you could walk into a CVS or DuaneReade and use cash to purchase a prepaid Visa card that works anywhere Visa cards are accepted.
Some states have laws that say cards must not expire or have fees, and they must be redeemable for cash. Unfortunately, New York does not seem to be among them: https://www.ncsl.org/research/financial-services-and-commerc...
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No more complex than other customer protection laws.
>However, it would be better to have all this huge ecosystem written in a single performant language.

It's not the language, it's the linkage model. Python glues C components together and that's why experienced professionals don't blink when going all in on Python: the performance can be easily cranked up to C level.
Archer's Paradox
I truly hope there will be more leaks in the future. So far, we're seeing the tip of the ice-berg - but I predict that if Assange dies without justice, there are going to be repercussions. There are a lot of angry people out there, sitting on a goldmine of information, just waiting to see how this proceeds. I can't imagine a scenario where Wikileaks is pounded into the ground, and the rest of the world goes quiet - sure, mainstream mind control being what it is, we may forget Assange soon enough.

But the truth wants to be free, and when crimes against humanity are committed at such scale as the Coalition is capable, there has to be more on the horizon.

One wonders what the AirWars folks are thinking about all of this. I sure hope groups like these, as well as Wikileaks, is going to survive this onslaught of injustice.

The truth will come out. There'll be more leaks.
NYC's ability to place pressure on retailers in NYC is higher than its ability to place pressure on national and international banks.
That’s not an original source to prove the claim in the headline. It’s someone making a claim that the DoJ is making that claim. (A video of “B says that A said” is not the same as an original video or text from A, particularly when A and B are adversaries.)
I read about the airport debacle in Germany, were you perhaps referring to that?
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Psyonix (Owned by Epic Games Now) Cancels Rocket League Mac and Linux Support
For AWS, as with many cloud offerings, read the pricing small print: AWS Secret Manager also charges per API request [1]. It isn't expensive, but you should keep it in mind when you architect your infrastructure. (We actually switched from fetching secrets at runtime to injecting them into containers are deploy time, and this was one reason).

https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing/
John D Cook did a couple of good blog posts on this

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/12/07/no-funding-for-unw...

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/12/07/simulating-zipcode...
I'm wondering at what point the Australian Government might actually stand up in the defense of one of it's citizens against potential (and maybe even actual) human rights violations.

Australian politicians very much like to talk about 'protecting Australians' when it comes to ISP data retention and laws against encryption, but they tend to go entirely missing in the kind of situations where they are actually needed on behalf of a citizen that, in this case, needs potentially life-saving protection.
As someone said in a comment above, blood samples of all people born in CA (and probably in many other locations) are stored centrally, so there is a non-zero chance their DNA info is leaking to foreign databases. I highly recommend to watch "yt! How to Survive the 21st Century Davos 2020". Harari makes very important statements related to this discussion.
I get that it's wasteful, but I'm not going to bike 20 miles each way to commute to work.

edit to be less snarky: I live in a city, so in theory there should be a plethora of sustainable transportation I could take to work. but there just aren't many software jobs in my city, so I have to commute to an exurb. I could move closer to work, but then I would be even farther away from my family (which is important to me). we need more than just an infrastructure upgrade to make this work.
> "According to WikiLeaks, witness statements submitted to the court by US prosecutors on Saturday argue that Assange does not enjoy First Amendment protections because he is not a US citizen and because the amendment allegedly does not protect speech made outside the United States.”

Isn’t this another way of saying US legal protections don’t apply to people who aren’t American, and aren’t physically present in America (or under its jurisdiction)? I feel like this would be the case for other countries, too: free speech laws that protect Americans in America wouldn’t protect them in China or Australia or Kenya, and Kenyans, Australians and Chinese citizens outside of the US aren’t protected by US law, either.
I always found the video of them constructing a 30 story hotel in just 15 days to be quite fascinating. [1]

The modules were assembled off-site, and delivered in sequence, for final assembly onsite.

But I haven’t heard of any further news from the company (BSB I think), for a few years, that I assume the government must’ve shut down their business model. Perhaps for poor quality, or for design defects. But the construction technique is probably worthy of further study and refinement.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg7F7nG0PKw
This sounds good - add them on linked in, go for a coffee outside of work once they have left.
> There's no "Send after X duration" or "Send at X time"

They added scheduled send recently. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/9214606
It is true, though I'll give two minor concessions/clarifications:

My 2 year old is basically 3 - his birthday is in Feb, close enough that calling him 2-year-old is bending the truth, but not technically breaking it :)

The alphabet thing is totally true - Largely due to Endless Alphabet, which is a rare really well designed learning app - but I will say that learning what sounds go with what alphabet letters is a specific type of education that really plays to the screen strengths and isn't as transferable to other types of education. The fact that I don't have another example like that one to demonstrate the power of educational apps shows that this might be exception rather than the rule.

On Endless Alphabet, when you drag the letters around (something kids get right away) it repeats the letter pronunciation again and again in different ways, and it still cracks them up. Then we finish dragging them, you get treated to a little funny animated video that are really well made. So they could play with that for hours, and knew all the pronunciations from there, and the order from the song (well the song is basically how I still know it). We'd test them when we pass signs on the street/sidewalk, and they did struggle, but both would get all the letters before they turned 1.

You wouldn't believe how badly most kids apps are made, even the big ones like hooked on phonics. Things like supporting multi-touch are essential since they don't have great motor skills, and not nailing that can be really confusing and frustrating for a child, who tends to think everything is because they can't do it, not because the app didn't implement it well. And the rest of the "Endless X" apps teaching other skills (maths, music) don't work as well as Endless Alphabet, I think it works exceedingly well for the specific memorization task of matching sounds to icons.
Keep in mind that this period is also Chinese New Year in China, and workers are mostly expecting time off (sometimes, their only time off of the year)
> There's no "Send after X duration" or "Send at X time", so you can't write something at 3am and schedule it to be sent during work hours.

Actually, this exact feature exists:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/9214606
Yes, it would be nice to have a European version.
Agreed on the point about maintainance!

As to your other points:

* There actually is a "scheduled send" send feature, but it is a bit hidden: The "Send" button has a little dropdown arrow, there you can select "scheduled send". Don't know how long that has been there, I remember missing that feature, too.

* There is "confidential mode", which I haven't used extensively, but that might be what you are looking for. It's one of the buttons next to "Send".
A company called Ticom Geomatics has applied for the most experimental licenses.

From their homepage: "we offer challenging projects where the results make a difference globally"

Note: "Make a difference" can be double-speak.

They also mention their "diverse and collaborative environment". I wonder if there are Mexicans on their staff.
Couldn’t this be effectively curtailed by requiring exact change only?
People use the web interface for GMail ?

I just have it set up via IMAP on my laptop, tablet and phone. No need to ever use it via the web interface. What would be the advantage of using the web interface vs. just using a native mail client ?
It is largely an untested theory. The USG asserts that his 1A protections do not apply because he is not a USC and speech was outside the US. That begs the question of whether the court then has jurisdiction. It is a good rule of thumb that if you are being tried in the US, the constitution applies to you.
True, but they run the risk of taking too long when there are targets in force that require more radical change. That said, what often happens is that incremental change reaches a tipping point where either the demand or supply side causes a step change.
> * There's no "Send after X duration" or "Send at X time", so you can't write something at 3am and schedule it to be sent during work hours.

I have this feature. Next to my Send button is a dropdown to Schedule Send at a time.
I didn't think nuclear waste could be "burned" ... I was given to believing that containment was the only option right now.

I'm familiar with your (1) (2) (3) items, but again, from what I've read these aren't fully satisfactory. (1) is probably ideal but hasn't really been cracked, (2) and (3) are just different facets of containment, but (3) is admittedly the most plausible right now.

We can tolerate a limited amount of this for sure, while we work on other solutions, but unless this question gets resolved it will hamper the widepsread adoption of nuclear.

The UK approach is interesting because yes, they just dumped it in the Irish sea. There's a deep underwater ravine between Scotland and Northern Ireland where it's all dumped, along with various other bits of old military hardware and other bits that are inconvenient.

Think about that the next time you here Bojo talking about building a bridge to Northern Ireland.
Basic HTML Gmail hasn't changed in years and works perfectly fine for all of my needs for gmail: reading and sending emails. I find the current UI to be quite unusable, but at least there's still the basic html option.