skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Philadelphia, Miami, New Orleans--all run by Democrats for decades. Huh...

"The EPA has known since at least 2001 about the problem of PFAS in drinking water but has so far failed to set an enforceable, nationwide legal limit. The EPA said early last year it would begin the process to set limits on two of the chemicals, PFOA and PFOS."

Funny how the article doesn't say the White House squelched publication of this information. But here we go with "The White House" bullshit. Stop with the smug little "See! I told you Trump is bad" nonsense, it simply isn't true.

We need to focus on fixing what is wrong, not playing stupid fucking gotcha games about the one Administration that has been trying to enact necessary reforms and is being prevented from doing so. You don't see how dangerous the runaway bureaucracy is, or how dangerously rogue these Federal agencies have become. For all you know the Administration that was sitting on these reports was Obama's! Enough.
It's not recommended to drink water from the tap without boiling or purifying in any form in the Russia Federation outside of Moscow city and the region.

Had a water poisoning from the tap in Gelendzhik, Russia Federation vacation break from Moscow in 2008
XPS 13 2020 just released
Half-Life series now free to play until launch of Half-Life: Alyx
I wish people were able to think about what is really doing on here for themselves for a few seconds instead of swallowing whole the prepackaged rhetoric from either side; on one side we have "corporations are evil and must be taxed just as heavily as we want to tax the life out of all citizens to support others against their will", and on the other side we have "corporations are benevolent angels who are constantly persecuted and hunted for their life blood while only ever having the most pure intentions and thoughts any angel could ever have.

Reality though is quite a bit in the middle-ground … corporations are enterprises headed by purely selfish and overwhelmingly people that are living embodiments of the dark triad of personality traits (narcissism fueled by psychopathy enacting machiavellianism), but on the other hand they are also very much not wrong in simply wanting to preserve and keep what they have, regardless of whether they got it illicitly and immorally in the first place, largely enabled by the other tribe of the dark triad that only carry a different banner, while also being corporatists, but feigning "concern for the common man" while devising ever more elaborate schemes for how to disposes people who actually earn things through productive and hard work of the fruits of their labor in order to support themselves and those who empower them.

What it all can be reduced down to when you start disassembling the various shields, force fields, lies, misdirection, and deception to get to the core of things; what we are really facing is an actual, real, objective new form of the parasitic exploitation model humanity has known in many forms, but most often refers to its most obvious incarnation as slavery … we have a system of modern slavery, one that long ago realized it is way more profitable to not have to worry taking care of unproductive slaves you physically control, but rather you simply take a huge chunk of most people who are productive and your net profit is wildly higher. It's precisely one of the reasons that oligarchs make sure to push everyone's attention to the trope of slavery, so most people do not realize that "slavery" (a term referring to the systematic exploitation of the slavs … a European people … even far and beyond feudal serfdom that was also a "slavery" business model) pivoted its business model.
Chinese sources have been reporting on the issue from 2019 December. How does your reference a proof that the chinese gov has been covering it up?
Not only a comedian/actor/writer but also a fine medievalist who engaged in original scholarship. Some years ago he caused quite a stir in Chaucerian circles by arguing that the Knight in the Knight's Tale (Canterbury Tales) was not actually the ideal of a knight but rather a mercenary and further, that the Knight's Tale, rather than being an ode to chivalry, "emerges...as a hymn to tyranny, dressed-up in the rags of a chivalric romance."[0] This sounds fairly minor but it's an interpretation, albeit one not wholly accepted by many scholars, that upended centuries of scholarship. An impressive achievement.

[0] http://smuhlberger.blogspot.com/2007/03/chaucers-knight-by-t...
I use: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej...
Another example of privatization of profits and socializing losses.

I live on Long Island (New York) and we have water problems from old factories that polluted the ground water.

My water bill will now include $80/year charge for new filtering plants that are supposed to clean up the contaminated water.

At best, the companies should’ve never been allowed to pollute the water. At worst, the cleanup cost should’ve been charged to the polluters immediately.

Instead, they get a subsidy from my neighbors and me while we drink contaminated water.

New York is trying to sue some companies to recover costs [1] but we can never be made whole. I doubt they’ll recover the full cost of the cleanup and I know they’ll never recover the cost to our health.

[1] https://libn.com/2019/12/23/new-york-ready-to-fight-polluter...
The new ground is that the tin is dated from apx 1000 BCE rather than 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE when the trade from the now british isles to the near east cultures was well established. These trade routes were thought to be disrupted during the bronze age collapse which, IIRC, started around 1500 BCE.
I suggest you use it work as you like without fear and experiment trying to fight conservative powers at your job to make it more exciting and to gain respect

If you don't like it, make it an excuse to risk
Products like the LifeStraw/Sawyer/Katadyn won't filter most chemicals. To remove some chemicals you need to use distillation and distillation is only good if the boiling point of a given chemical is higher than that of water.

LifeStraw even states

>Chemicals, salt water, heavy metals and viruses will not be removed.

http://help.lifestraw.com/en/articles/2507813-does-the-lifes...

Sawyer states

>Taste

>The Sawyer filter removes taste that comes from bacteria, dirt, and green matter.

>Chemicals

>The Sawyer filter does NOT remove iron, sulfur, other chemicals, or simple compounds. Taste can be masked by using flavor additives like Gatorade or crystal light (filter needs to be cleaned immediately after using them).

>Heavy Metals

>The Sawyer filters are not made with charcoal. While other portable filters have charcoal, they lack in amount of media and adequate dwell time. Therefore, they only remove small amounts of heavy metals, pesticides, etc. (when used in real life applications). Try using better sources of water, if possible.

https://sawyer.com/water-filtration/faqs/
I use this, but trying to get off it as it is no longer maintained, and many of the benefits are now features of docker proper.
I can advise anyone to (re)play these games with the developer commentary on. It goes into a lot of details on technical and game design stuff and really lets you experience the game with a whole different view. Like how certain parts of the map are setup to teach certain mechanics and the huge role gametesting played in determining the final layout of the game.
Ultimately the biggest mockery of the Lion Air request was Boeing's refusal of it.
It's faster to get an official reply by sending an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com
Right, but I think modern crowd-funding is inherently designed for trust, otherwise people won't fund. Taxes are not an option for the payer - for a reason - but still I think its lacking on the trust element, which is fundamental to a functioning society. Maybe then the crowd-funded bodies are meant to keep an eye on the government to do its job.
My point was that TypeScript includes ALL of JS (the good and the bad parts).

There is not a single feature from JavaScript that TypeScript removes.
Hey. This is my keyboard (and the layout): https://imgur.com/gallery/GwQONlT

And my keymap file: https://gist.github.com/burakcan/dbb292e47df2defaffd405669fe...
yaw dawg i heard you like diamonds
Man, I could get an A in like, 20 seconds.
Fuck you corda!
My city has a bus route from the airport to a particular central place in the city. It does not have a bus route going straight to every district of the city, much less to my home.

It may share 90% of the trip with that bus route, but the remaining 10% are very important.
For anyone interested in reading Terry Jones' book: https://www.amazon.com/Chaucers-Knight-Portrait-Medieval-Mer...

A true legend through and through. RIP.
It's not free forever, only until march when Alyx launch's.
There's nothing in this call that rises remotely to the level of anything criminal. I still remember Obama patting Medvedev on the knee and telling him that he will have more leeway after the election to do as he pleases, and Medvedev replying that he will forward this message to Putin... THAT wasn't criminal, but this phone call is?

I didn't vote for Trump last time but I will this time, not because I like him, but as a warning to any party that thinks its more important to win than to improve the USA.
Utilizing Facial Recognition to Increase Brand Awareness
> that is so, why was it classified at the highest level, code name system with only a handful of people in the White House with sufficient clearance to see or access it?

Because the very first thing is discussing planned defense procurement?

> How many times does he say he’s going to have his personal attorney, representing private citizen trump, call the president of Ukraine, along with the Attorney General of the US, representing America (and trump) to discuss opening an investigation into a political rival?

Hold on. Most of the discussion (the part after “favor”) concerns whether the Mueller investigation was rooted in faulty information from the Ukraine. This is my first time reading the transcript, but it looks like he doesn’t mention Biden until the end. It’s not quite “in passing,” but the focus of the “favor” is clearly on investigating Ukrainian information on which the Mueller investigation was based (which is the subject of an ongoing DOJ investigation).

> And to make the timing even better, it happens right after the special counsel investigation and report into election meddling that culminated in Trump campaign leadership criminal convictions and prison time, with 20+ indictments of Russian nationals (GRU) in addition.

The Mueller investigation failed to turn up anything significant. Almost all those convictions were for lying to investigators. For a federal prosecutor, securing those kinds of convictions is child’s play, because people reflexively lie when questioned about these sorts of things. (This is why obstruction shouldn’t be chargeable as a stand-alone crime, but that’s a separate rant.) Charging obstruction and Section 1001 is what federal prosecutors do to save face when an investigation hasn’t turned up what it sought to turn up. (I should note that while suddenly people are big fans of convicting people not for what they did, but lying during the investigation, pre-Trump there was a bi-partisan view among criminal justice reformers that obstruction charges like 18 USC 1001 are abused: https://www.forbes.com/sites/harveysilverglate/2012/04/18/wh...)
Do they work under Linux?
The vast majority of limited trade during pre-industrial times is due to the inefficiency of (i.e. cost) of long range transportation. A single modern cargo ship can carry more cargo in a single voyage than an entire years worth of the entire medieval world's cargo fleets. And at a price that is few orders of magnitude cheaper (per ton).

Not that it mattered since production of everything was, by today's standards, a few orders of magnitude less efficient.
It's often difficult to fully grasp how inefficient and slow everything was in pre-industrial times until you dig into the details.
Luckily Steam tells us which games will be incompatible with Catalina. For me it's a big part of my library and some are even recent (-5 years). I doubt these game will ever get updates or Apple will provide a compatiblity layer ala rosetta stone like they did for the PPC to X86 switch. A lot of old games are already lost to me because of this.
Unfortunately I was pretty confusing. The G-GP had said 'imagine how much worse other languages are', and I was pointing out that I don't know which those other languages with worse tooling are. That phrase was meant to say 'Java and C# are obviously not languages with worse tooling'. That is, I agree with you, and considered it obvious that Java and C# have stellar tooling.
"privatization of profits and socializing losses."

This is ideologically biased. You mean "externalize RISK", which governments and NGOs do all the time too.
This would be much better solved with IP-based rate limits. And if IP-based doesn't work, then you're dealing with a DDOS, and it doesn't sound like this case was DDOS protection.
Showing the prototype will probably provide better feedback. Identifying good prospects and showing it to them will probably provide the best feedback. Most people on Hacker News do not run digital marketing agencies.

Good luck.
Misconfiguration Allows Access to Microsoft Support Database
I don't usually use debuggers in functional programming languages. Since it's mostly expressions I usually use REPLs.

But for imperative languages like Go, a fast and good debugger can boost up productivity a lot if properly used, it's basically a REPL for imperative languages - since imperative languages mess with the ordering and the environments much more than functional languages.

Instead of inferring how to code would be executed, you would debug at reasonable places, know how it executes and play with it directly with some expressions. It's more about the feedback speed.

Only using print it's not sufficient because there are a lot of data structures that are too large to serialize. Or like functions that are not serializable at all, you have to reference it in the debugger or it doesn't really help.
naive question: What is implementation difference between async and synchronous function that makes many languages differentiate them?
Ask HN: India is not a tech country and won't be anytime soon. Your thoughts?
I've been in the tech for sometime now and would want to throw some light on few things, and maybe get an alternative perspective on this issue.

The primary economy of the country is Agriculture. There has been no focus on making tech a primary source of income for the country and I don't see it happening anytime soon. One of the reasons why I say this is because our education systems sucks and is 50 years older compared to our counterparts and teach students to consume rather than drive innovation. We are a country with highest young population. Even a small contributions of innovating work would have tremendous impact on the country's economy. However, progress through innovation has to be cultural thing (from home or from our system) and our system lacks both and is not built produce new work but built to consume. We are one big consumer economy, our services market is one of the most influential and quite possibly the greatest progress the country has made in 70 years of independence.

Another problem is that if the country starts driving innovation the economics of the country would fall apart as the internal market might close down the investment and trades, why would foreign nations want other countries to consume the incomes of their people.

The solution to this is either India become a closed market (which was the case earlier, but didn't fare well for the country) or become open to foreign investments and sustain on emergency supplies.

Q. How do the other tech people see this problem and what would leaving the country be a viable option for this?

Q. What are people in similar economies doing in this case eg. Russia?
Comparing modern day burnout to slavery is a gross exaggeration and it's honestly shocking that this is the top comment in the thread.
Pretty sure that this is off-topic according to the rules.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My kids play with the bricks I used to play with as a kid. So usually they last for at least 2 generations. And in between, lot's of cousins have played with them.

How many other plastic toys have such a long replayability?
The challenge with gc is that it itself isn’t a complete solution and actually creates new problems that are even harder to solve. Everyone worries about memory because it’s the most common resource but all resources have this problem (eg files, network handles, dB connections, audio handles, etc). So then you end right back to having GC languages add back scope-based ownership for that (python with, java closeable, etc). With RAII-style management like C++ or Rust all resources are treated uniformly.

Furthermore the challenge with concurrent GC is that max memory utilization is difficult to contain and difficult to make performance deterministic. So yes it has advantages. It also has severe disadvantages for the types of low-level efficient things Rust is meant for. Remember. Rust is meant to replace the existing problems that people reach for C/C++. That’s the space it’s competing in - embedded programming, operating systems, browsers, etc. There are problems that other languages are better suited for. Python, Ruby, Java are easier to work with not only because of GC. Java in particular pays an even larger cost due to not supporting value types and is still struggling afaik to integrate them properly into the GC which inhibits programmer-aided optimization of memory usage/layout.

Also, I’ll note that Swift and Objective-C are pretty easy to work with for memory management (on the level of Java) despite not having GC and get quite close to the performance of C/C++/Swift.

The challenges with GC that you handwave away has been what’s been said about GC ever since the beginning. Perhaps it’s time to admit that GC isn’t the silver bullet you think it is?
There are Python bindings for Qt.
I’m sorry if that sounded rude, it wasn’t meant to be. Ultimately though, you’re using the argument to paint an incorrect picture and then operate within that picture to make further claims. If you think it was a weak point, or not relevant within the context, it’s generally best to keep it out. I do pretty heavy cleanup after I write comments myself to not look like I’m implying something that I’m actually not.
> Rust [...] everything is web-based

Correction: Rust's help and documentation is HTML-based, and getting a local, automatically updated copy is trivial.

> even "local" docs launch in a web browser

Uh, so what? Can you name a better format for programming language documentation that's also ubiquitously supported?
Got QBasic in the 90's from a parent and bounced right off. Klick'n Play however consumed many hours. Or even batch files, if it meant I could get those Origin Systems games to run.
Another reason for me to not upgrade, despite the notification nags me every day
You're not alone! There are dozens of us!

Mangling is a buggy, half-assed mess.
You're missing the point. From your quote:

> Until now, Apple appears to have handed over very little data about Chinese users. From mid-2013 to mid-2017, Apple said it did not give customer account content to Chinese authorities, despite having received 176 requests, according to transparency reports published by the company.

By moving iCloud data and keys to China, the amount of data Apple handed to Chinese authorities on Chinese iCloud users went from zero to a nonzero amount. Therefore, Apple degraded the security and privacy of Chinese iCloud users by making the switch to Chinese servers.

Due process is much more frequently ignored in China than in the United States, but that fact isn't even necessary to establish that Apple's switch to Chinese servers negatively affected Chinese iCloud users. The above is sufficient.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111019034145/http://www.law.ya...
Hm I've never heard of itch.io until I see this comment
I'm happy for the PHP developers.

I still find it an eyesore to read, but everyone is free to use their preferred languages. Stuff like this article shows that good software can be created in any language if there's the will.

Even in brainfuck (I assume).
I have my bookmarks on google sheet and served using api.
I am using flask to serve those over the web.
Added a search functionality to make it easier to search for it
Anyways you can check it out
https://bookmarks-flask.herokuapp.com/
Because that's what the jobs that are hiring are for in the place the GP lives? I mean, I'd rather browse HN than do work all day, but nobody's going to pay me for that.

I was an early web developer who transitioned into a modern one as time passed but I've moved back to desktop application development as of late because that's what was hiring in my area at the time I was looking for a job and I simply am not married to a particular technology.
> distillation is only good if the boiling point of a given chemical is higher than that of water

What about fractional distillation?
Thanks! I appreciate your comments.

Anyway, schooling systems are quite different between ARG and DEU, in Argentina private schools are quite common and the quality of these is quite bad when compared with German Gymnasiums. I know that private schools in Germany are quite uncommon. I attended a Gymnasium in Germany for some months when I was a teenager many many years ago (I'm nearing my 40s) and found the quality of german public schools way better when compared with Argentinian schools (private or public ones). At least Gymnasiums, not sure about Gesamtschules and Realshules.

You are right regarding weather and housing :)
Some men just want to see the ABI Burn.

I think there are many compelling arguments to "living at head" and committing to breaking backwards compatibility. If it means making many base constructs of the language as performant as expected.
Thanks for that. I might try that. It's been a loooong time since I have used NeXTSTEP.
> Wonder if this will help to kill a meme, about how much Apple cares about users and what great values they have, how they're going to stand for the user, fight with governments, etc.

I interpret this opinion as Black/White thinking or all-or-nothing thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)
Same problem here. I've just spent close to an hour trying to locate a box fan for sale in Europe, couldn't find any resembling those I can easily find on amazon.com!
Unito raises $10.5M to unify disparate enterprise apps and services
> There is no job or project where you just use the language Java/C#, you have to pull their immense libraries and frameworks in too.

Why do you think this? I regularly write plain Java code, or code using just a couple of simple libraries.
It certainly "gratifies" my intellectual curiousity. I might also add that it's hard to work in IT and escape a Monty Python reference at one point or another during one's career.
The purpose of the puzzle pieces is to prevent syntax errors, right? Do kids (or anyone, now that I consider the question) really need to deal with syntax errors?
HL1 has a native Linux version, HL2 works with Proton.

Edit: As cosarara correctly points out, HL2 also runs natively.
Eclipse is far more powerful of a C and Java IDE than any non-commercial Go (I)DE. NetBeans is also a great Java IDE. They're not as powerful as IntelliJ or VS, but they are still miles ahead of any Go plugin I've used.

Also note, for C you have gdb, you have ctags, you have all sorts of great plugins for Emacs or Vim or whatever. You also have stellar plugins for Javascript and TypeScript, for VSCode, for Emacs, for vim and many others.

I'm not just comparing VS with vim+go plugins.