skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know how to feel about this. I would be nice if there was good warning.

Even worse is the “for purposes of the MCA” which means it may or not be state territory for other purposes.

We need to know who is in charge so they can be held accountable.

I’ve lived near plenty of reservations and they are very different places. Some have very good government services, and relations with non-tribal authorities. Others, not so much.

The idea of telling a tribal authority: “surprise you’re responsible for criminal laws of half a state” puts a ton of pressure on tribal authorities, and even more pressure on tribal members to hold them accountable.

I’m not for or against this decision. I’m saying the small print and details matter a lot. And “small print” is an area where tribal relations often go bad.

I hope this works out. It has great potential- for bad and good!
> Last I checked, we lived in a democracy.

The United States is a Constitutional Republic with rights explicitly enshrined therein, including its amendments. You are more than welcome to your opinion on violating constitutional rights but if you want the rule of law then you should follow the constitutional process to add an amendment in order to revoke said rights.

> So, you are opposed to government surveillance of neo-nazi groups that eschew violence, then?

Yes! You either believe in free speech and freedom of assembly or you don't. If these groups are a clear and present danger, show probable cause already. If they aren't, counter-protest, shame them, embarrass them, whatever.

More often than not, hate groups can't help but cross that line to violence or are already linked to violence. It's really almost an oxymoron to talk about neo-Nazi groups that "eschew violence" since they almost always believe in genocide and the violent overthrow of the government and are working towards it. I know it's a tempting rhetorical device, but it's really a strawman.
Concrete evidence of discriminatory activities, concrete evidence of policies which systemically exclude people who happen to be black for no bona-fide reason (Think "We're looking for a culture fit" more than "We want an employee from a prestigious school").
Combined with a sufficient quantity or data, and especially with some sort of trend that implies black underrepresentation.

I've certainly seen intellectually rigorous studies of discrimination against Black people, mostly involving sending out resumes where there is no notable difference other than the implied ethnicity of the applicant. This post on the other hand claiming that discrimination in the mortgage industry in the 90s means that google must be practising racial discrimination today IS willful blindness in the place of intellectual rigor.
Sure, but "functional" code, in the vernacular, means a rather less specific version of that.

You can, after all, write "functional C". (It can be hard, though.)
Most crimes have a statute of limitations. Why should moving a boundary illegally not have a similar limitation?
> I did not [demand] that anyone do anything.

But you repeatedly criticized him for voicing his objections to being de-anonymized. When asked how he could’ve done so differently, you said that he should’ve wrote about how terrible his blog posts were instead. How is this different from demanding that he shut up?

> It's silly to jump from what I actually said to what you inferred.

That’s an explanation of what you’ve been doing all along with the whole “making suggestions” nonsense.
Exactly. I've been through a similar exercise of assembling a system more-or-less from scratch, and I found it quite useful as a learning experience. It's not about using the resulting system long-term, it's about seeing how one is put together.
I started dropshipping in 2009 and it was my first business. I had some money in the bank, but used credit cards to fund my operation.

I never had to spend money on ads because I used existing marketplaces which essentially had built-in marketing. I wrote software that allowed me to add a massive amount of products, sync pricing, and remove products when they were no longer available.

It worked surprisingly well and I was able to make a decent living for about 5 years. It was by no means a way to passively make money. I was working 50-60 hours/week to keep everything running smoothly and manage customer questions and returns.

I eventually gave it up and moved onto to other ways of making more money with less hassle. It's a time sink unless you are able to scale it to millions of dollars and hire employees to manage customer support.

Payment providers also really don't like dropshippers. I was constantly fighting to get my money transferred (I once had $50,000 held for over 2 months) and bending over backwards to make my customers happy.

You will also pay a certain percentage in returns and lost orders. If you are dropshipping from overseas, you will need to get really good with dealing with customs issues, making sure you aren't selling counterfeits, and making sure your supplier is actually telling the truth about their products and shipping them out consistently.

It's also really easy for suppliers to steal your customers. It's much better to have all of your products shipped to you and then white label them/ship them out to your customers directly.
You could look a the commit logs and see if there’s any email domains that pique your interest.
I have about 30 hats, I don't wear a hat every day because I am usually not leaving the house, but when I leave the house I typically wear a hat. That's just how I grew up in the rural Midwest. I know it's dying out and I've had people make comments that I am old man in a young man's body, but nonetheless it's a habit I have. I'm always on the lookout for good hats so if you'd like to share a link to her work I may be interested to buy. Right now I mostly buy hats from Goorin Brothers.
Long term credit assignment with temporal reward transport
I don't understand how we don't already have this, in the form of Roe v Wade. That decision revolves around the idea that a medical treatment is a private matter between a woman and her doctor. And if that's the case, I don't understand how the government can interfere with a doctor advising a patient to use, say, marijuana, or any given drug.
Ask HN: How can I fight climate change by writing code?
> But you're making it sound like they have a benefits package above and beyond other employment.

They do. The biggest clue is the difficulty in obtaining what the value of that benefits package is.

> put in 20-30 years, they're usually retiring comfortably

I find it amazing that one can retire comfortably at 42 if you're a schoolteacher. What other job in the private sector offers that?
SuSE
When did you email? I can't find any email from you in the archives, and that's not the kind of thing we'd fail to respond to.

Sometimes legit emails go to spam, though I look over the spam folder pretty carefully too.
Is it okay to what company is that
Can you please explain where all the olivine is found? I can't think where I have seen any amount of it, other than on a few beaches in Hawaii. Descriptions of the project seem to suggest it is extremely abundant somewhere. Where?
If we try really hard we can destroy this company. Fingers crossed I guess?

To go in and create professional ecosystem's like IT in places where it doesn't exist is a NGO's fantastical dream, it might be possible for Andela to pull this off, but hit pieces like this, where they are just doing industry standard don't help.

Personally I'd bet against Andela, much as we want them to succeed, without an existing ecosystem, IT developers just can't get off the ground. People talk about self learning IT, but so much of that works because of the people around them, without the critical mass it's not possible. You can't just magic it up online either. If you could find a process that gets it to work, that'd be pretty amazing and world changing, but it's probably related to getting MOOCs to work, it's still missing something.
Get rid of HTML and CSS. Have everything done more programatically like React.
I won't argue with your overall point, just to say that I don't think most people consider commercial air travel to be the least bit "romantic". It's a way to get somewhere, sometimes for work, sometimes to see family, sometimes for a vacation (I suspect in that order).

I was curious so I looked it up, the term "jet set" originates from the 1950s when it probably was romanticized as only the very wealthy could afford to fly.
Those who benefit from the the current situation are responsible.
Good riddance.

> Nearly four years after I began building Sleeping Giants, the campaign to make bigotry and sexism unprofitable,

Free market solves that problem (see Milton Friedman) without the help of busybodies like you, so to be exact you wanted to make bigotry and sexism profitable for you.

As per Friedman, free market already punishes enterprises who discriminate against workers or customers. You and your startup were there just to exploit the situation, while producing nothing of value. I hope it shuts down soon and all your ex colleagues be forced to find proper jobs.
I upvoted because it is accurate. I wanted to comment that I think you can drop the race part from the comment.
Ask HN: What are possible follow-on fx of trends you're paying attention to now?
Mentioned elsewhere but that is largely the heart of Functional Core, Imperative Shell: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...

(And I am sure a bunch of other similar but differently-named concepts)
I am certain that the non-profit sector can organize and create a reporter-based system that logs this data if the individual states and cities won't.

There's never been more desire for this data.
One belongs to the Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912, and the other to 1897 [1].

It’s the narcissism of small differences, and the treatment of heretics versus pagans.

They- the NYT and SSC- do have, probably, 99% overlap politically, but that’s not too far off from the difference between humans and chimps either. It’s that last 1% that really generates a lot of friction between them.

As the article says, Scott would tolerate conversations with vile people and egregious ideas. The NYT would rather dox them.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/sep/29/comedy.religio...
If you don't think it's flamebait, you haven't seen the flamewars that such comments lead to. It's our job to be the fire department here. If someone tosses off a lit match at a gas station, that's either arson or criminal negligence, and the fires burn the same either way.

There are good reasons why the site guidelines say "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." and "Eschew flamebait." It's not as if we sat down and dreamt them up one day. They come from many years of experience and directly address how internet forums function, and commenters here need to follow them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Now only if Hawaii had the same type of record of the unlawful overthrow and forced annexation ...
Check out mtPaint. It's very similar to old school paint, and works on Linux too.

http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/
Got it thanks for the advice and it makes a lot of sense if company hires a junior they can eventually train them
I don't know of any people who say that the US is entirely a meritocracy. I have heard the argument that success in the US is _more_ based on merit than it is in certain other places, or that basing success on merit is good and is something we should strive to do more than we currently do, but "it is possible to get ahead in ways other than merit" does not disprove either of those.
"It says a lot about the general attitude of Chinese people" in the context of a story about fraud is obvious flamebait. Please follow the site guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You can call moderation 'censorship'—people mostly just mean by it that they don't like something. I don't see the similarity to the communist party myself, but have been accused of communism so often by now—invariably after doing a bit of standard moderation that somebody disliked—that it has all come to seem more internet-silly than anything anybody actually believes.
Hmm. Not sure that I agree - but we would have to come to a common definition of "quality".

I do agree that, fundamentally, every repair is a replacement. But, devil in the details - replace just a crappy capacitor which popped, or the whole motherboard because easier? There's the rub.
If each individual actor or firm is not being racist than no racism, systemic or not, exists in the aggregate.

However you didn't claim that no actor was being racist regardless, you claimed that the redliners were being racist, which is true. So go after them and their children, not Google.
just like good code, good text goes through several iterations, or beta versions.

Congratulations, Derek!
Latin America has a problem with corruption and the rule of law generally that goes well beyond drugs. I don't really know how to fix it and don't believe anyone else does either. I am certainly willing to support an attempt at legalization since it has a moral basis in "freedom" and such. But the above poster is not wrong. If murder-for-hire, sex trafficking in children, etc are outlawed, then only outlaws will do those too. Meanwhile Canada did not become a weak and corrupt narco state, despite having an even larger border with the US. For that matter Japan's (even stricter) drug laws didn't turn Korea and China or any other neighbor into a narco states. The problem is more complicated than people want to believe.
Agreed. This got me started on a love affair that is still going strong, around 20 years later.
People arn't wearing enough hats...
It made way more sense as an aircraft when:

1. Communication was not as instantaneous as today and more things required face to face meetings.

2. You could basically walk onto an air plane with minimal security interference.

My dad said he flew the Concorde several times from Europe to NYC for business in the late 70s and early 80's and he said it was worth it in that context.

I should ask him how comfortable it was next time I see him. I've been inside of a Concorde that was turned into a museum piece and it is a pretty cramped airframe. I dunno how modern 2020 people would feel about the compactness.
Look no further than the rampant white collar crime that goes un-prosecuted in the US. No one is being held accountable for PPP corruption.

Of course being anti-racist is emotional. How can you not feel very upset when contemplating the racial inequities in this country?
What is the "current situation" and what is the "benefit"?
DDDG has raised $13 million. Neeva has raised $37.5 million. Hulbee has raised $9 million.
If he would get more hours in during that time instead of going home earlier, then you could value the time saved against how much it would cost.

If he makes $50 an hour and he can get an extra hour in working, if it is cheaper for him to order food then yes it makes economic sense.

On the other hand if he were at home watching Netflix and he spent the money set aside for his utility bill to eat out and his lights got cut off , the opportunity cost wasn’t the $50, it was that he could have had lights.
Let's look at a specific example then of why sharing codepoints between languages is so silly.

Let's talk about 直. Is that a japanese character? A chinese one? Well, let's look it up in a japanese dictionary [0] and then a chinese one [1].

You should see that the results look different. They're two different characters drawn in two different ways. However, in this hacker news comment, there's no way for me to indicate to use one font for one, and one font for the other. I can't say "The japanese glyph 直 is the same unicode codepoint as the chinese glyph 直 even though they render differently. They were unified". I can't make them render correctly as japanese and chinese respectively. For my computer, it _only_ renders in the chinese variant (without the extra stroke on the left) on hacker news. Like most sites, there's no way to indicate in the text input which language that portion of my text is. Unlike with every western script, if I don't indicate the language correctly, it will be actively rendered wrong and difficult for a reader to understand.

To draw an analogy from another hacker news comment, this would be like the unicode consortium saying that 'colour' always renders as 'color', and you just have to switch fonts for it to look like 'colour' [3].

Okay, so that's why unifying things at all is silly and causes trouble.

As for characters that were unified out of existence: unfortunately, examples of those are hard to give. There are various names that have stylistic choices or use unusual characters which can no longer be rendered "correctly". Arguably, that could be seen as akin to the fact that if you style your name calligraphically in the western world, unicode doesn't help you replicate that flair.

[0]: https://jisho.org/search/%E7%9B%B4%20%23kanji

[1]: https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=...

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041288
In the case of politicians, you can simply vote them out next election.

Board positions can be lifetime appointments.
It is, even amazon bans resellers sometimes.
Vaguely reminds me of the Cambridge (UK) system. Your scores can be checked online, and you can now request they not be published, but the way everyone in my social group found out their results was to make the twenty minute walk to the University admin buildings and look at the printed list posted outside.

It got the "What did you get?" conversations out of the way pretty quickly!
I didn't study 9th grade Oklahoma history, so maybe you could enlightened me. I did a bit of googling and it seems that Oklahoma wasn't suitable for large scale agriculture till the 2oth century when innovative farming techniques were developed.

Is this not correct?
> Why is it laughable? I have already said several times what was uncivil about it.

Perhaps this was the case, but you seem to have edited many parent comments in this chain with a '-'. Unless the flagging behavior has changed without my knowing. My understanding is that flagging removes the comment from users without showdead enabled, but does not edit the comment.

> If I was a psychologist who read the comments of my posts I would have realize that subtle suggestions can be blown out of proportions and I would be very careful with what words I was using to express my intent.

> A civil phrasing would have been, "I'm making this decision of my own volition but I personally plan to work out a peaceful solution for all parties involved". That would have been civil. Asking anyone to act on your behalf by giving feedback to a 3rd party when it's obvious the intent is negative is not civil. It is sinister.

He explicitly tells people to be police, to not be a jerk, and to be mindful that they are representing the SSC community. How is this failing to express his intent that anyone commenting on his behalf to be civil? And how on Earth is it "obvious the intent is negative is not civil" when he explicitly tells any potential commenters to be civil?

Your suggestion that Scott instead write, "I'm making this decision of my own volition but I personally plan to work out a peaceful solution for all parties involved" is not a rephrasing. It's a completely different message. He is not making this decision on his own volition, he was prompted to delete the blog due to the actions of another person. Your suggested phrasing not only completely omits this fact, but says the complete opposite.
It hasn't had enough fruits and vegetables yet, baxter007.
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> they need to have a particular set of interpersonal and teaching skills which is rarer in programmers

This is a very Western belief and one that is rooted in a lot of bias. Maybe people who have a particular set of interpersonal and teaching skills aren’t becoming programmers because the people entrenched in the field don’t value interpersonal and teaching skills?
nobody knows what will happen yet. This is just opening page of that book.
Is criticism no longer allowed? Isn't that the foundation of rational debate?

I have no opinions on his anonymity. I personally don't care or want to know who he is and wasn't planning on reading the NYT article. I have my own conclusions about SSC and its community that I doubt would be changed by the article and no one here has yet convinced me otherwise or given any compelling evidence to the contrary.

I have explained why I used the words that I did. If you have any more points to make then quote me in context and provide an actual rebuttal instead of calling what I wrote "nonsense".
So what? While the convenience of air travel is nice, I think the environmental cost right now is too great -- don't get me wrong, I love being able to hop on a plane and travel to say France (not that I can do that anymore with C19). It's somewhat selfish though, there's a pretty decent CO2 cost associated with it.

Maybe I get to go overseas if I make a commitment to offsetting the CO2 that I use (e.g. carbon credits) ... but that's hardly very progressive (why should only the wealthy only get to travel).

I suppose we could try to clean up shipping [bunker fuel] so we could go via some sort of gas turbine / wind powered cruise ship.

Or maybe this change in economic fortunes makes solar powered airships viable! Slow(-ish), but clean (& maybe fun!), I'm thinking the Mark Twain airship in "The Long Earth".

... I think I like the Mark Twain airship idea ... it sounds fun.
I agree, for a couple reasons. One, while you usually have to deal with a cross toolchain (usually intel-> ARM) it's easier to build and debug on a target board versus booting and rebooting your PC to see if you did everything right. Also the

I've used debootstrap to build a Debian distro for ARM with a custom kernel (for an Olimex board target or Beaglebone.) That's very hands-off and not nearly the same "depth" as LFS. The next step was taking the same kernel and building a busybox-based rootfs. Then I had to make my own PID 1 and do init work to bring up services such as networking on boot which was very educational, yet busybox provides most of the "lego bricks" that you're not left writing too much from scratch.

Building to an embedded target also allows one to punt on the most annoying and complex parts of a desktop linux distro, such as the desktop environment, audio/video drivers, UEFI bootloader, etc. Building a semi-custom (e.g. Arch or Debian/debootstrap, Buildroot or OpenEmbedded) headless distro was what I'd call a "shallow dive" or gentle introduction to more of Linux's inner workings without having to understand every bit in order to get a running system.
"We", as in, "the country". It's part of the history and foundation of the country you agreed to become a citizen of. The nation of today is not isolated from it's past. Much benefit was gained from injustices of the past. What is the just thing to do? Sweep it under the rug and act like it didn't matter? What kind of values are those?
I thought about saying something similar. There are plenty of "people groups" that no longer exist due to war, forced take over, famine, etc. Nobody stands up for them though. People now are only pushing what immediately benefits them.