skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's the Senate majority leader. The above comment is not correct, one senator is not holding the nation hostage. The majority of the Senate is. The Senate majority leader just happens to be one of the more senior members of the majority party in the senate. Mitch McConnell, as far as legislating goes, is no different from any other Senator.
> There's quite a bit of variation. The basic idea behind charter schools is that they eliminate the union (that's almost literally their entire purpose).

That's not the public position of charter schools. Charter schools are based on the idea that more flexibility will give better results, that has nothing to do with unions. The flexibility comes largely from not being pushed around by the school board and subject to testing and limits. Unions are willing to be flexible with education structure

The fact that most charter schools insist on no unions is what drives much of the opposition which sees them as a bad faith stalking horses for people who want to destroy union power. If charter schools were universally unionized there would be much less opposition!

Compare with magnet schools which are unionized. (But still have to deal with school board oversight)

> Over time, as people figure out what works and what doesn't, I would expect to see them continue to widen the gap between themselves and traditional public schools.

I don't see the evidence for this. Studies show Charter schools perform no better then regular public schools. Some places that have really crappy public schools may try to turn to more charter schools on the chance that on average they might be better but I'd say reforming the regular school system would work better (even though it might be harder)
How where you able to implement such a fast floodfill? I tried to make something similar a few years ago, but was not able to get the floodfilling to work in reasonably time
Real question: have we solved the radiation problem yet? The concord's solution was to sample exposure with a cockpit Geiger counter and descend to 40kft if things got too hot.
This format is amazing. I love watching these types of videos on YouTube, but the random video-hopping the algorithm gives me via "recommendations" never feel productive. Now when I procrastinate by watching internet videos I can point to this book and say, "See, this isn't procrastination, I'm actually working towards something". Many thanks to the author.
I never comment, and I appreciate your view, but suffice it to say that I hate the Touch Bar enough that your comment has spurred me to post.

My company-issued laptop has a Touch Bar, and I can only imagine that it was invented and distributed by some kind of malicious clique of saboteurs within Apple who hate both (1) users and (2) Apple and want both to fail.

Brushing the Touch Bar accidentally with a finger leads Siri to interrupt me, silencing whatever video call I'm on or music I'm listening to. Instead of being able to adjust the volume manually or pause what I'm listening to with a key that I can press without looking, I have to flatten and retract my hands, peer down at the touchbar, and then poke through several options just in order to do a simple operation, all the while terrified that Siri will interrupt me.
It appears like we've hit the max comment depth. This is really meant as a reply to your last comment in this thread.

Based on your last comment I think our disagreement is less about what makes a democracy and more about what constitutes collective bargaining. I don't see a difference between the examples you cited and a worker at a private company telling their neighbours to boycott the company until working conditions improve. Both of these are individual actions and unless they're organized at a larger scale the word "collective" doesn't really apply to either of them.
> per passenger-mile, flying is much less polluting than driving a car, even after you account for the fact that pollution in the stratosphere is more damaging. If getting rid of air travel results in more people driving across the country, that makes the greenhouse worse.

Flying enables burning more fuel to go farther in the same amount of time.

Your comparison is simply bogus and structured to favor flying.

In a world without flying, those travel miles don't get replaced by automobile miles. They simply don't occur for the most part.

For such comparisons you should really hold the travel time constant, not the distance.
> quality journalism drives subscriptions.

A more effective paywall drives subscriptions. Once you have a paywall, subscriptions are as much about clicks as ads.

I don't have a subscription myself, but I have considered paying for one because acquaintances with a low bar for quality occasionally want to share and discuss something behind the paywall and I can't rely on all of them to know how to print a pdf and share that with me.

As subscribers witness the quality decline, they'll cancel their subscriptions.

The NY Times today is not the NY Times of A.M. Rosenthal.
Due the the typo (helm a Rom => help a Roma), I couldn't follow, but some Googling turned up Jock Palfreeman [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Palfreeman
I'm not surprised by that. There is an exhausting amount of information that they have to digest & recall. It makes sense that they would assume that the most common conditions are likely to be the cause of your ailment. Maybe AI or automated diagnosis could help in the future, by suggesting rare conditions that fit the symptoms as well as the common ones.
> The monitoring seems at odds with claims from both Twitter and Dataminr that neither company would engage in or facilitate domestic surveillance following a string of 2016 controversies. Twitter, up until recently a longtime investor in Dataminr alongside the CIA, provides the company with full access to a content stream known as the “firehose” — a rare privilege among tech firms and one that lets Dataminr, recently valued at over $1.8 billion, scan every public tweet as soon as its author hits send. Both companies denied that the protest monitoring meets the definition of surveillance.

Dataminr is not the only company with access to the firehose that has law enforcement and military customers (or customers of customers, who would even know?) doing whatever they please with it.

I believe that Twitter has cracked down on this recently, or is at least beginning to ask Twitter data customers to restrict some of their customer's usage (or remove access entirely). But all of this after the fact.

Also, if you deleted something off Twitter and you think it's gone from every downstream data warehouses that captured it seconds after you tweeted, and also the people with access to those warehouses that copied it to their own storage... well, then I have a bridge to sell you.
That's true, interesting and important. But I don't think it addresses the intent of my point, which was that there are plenty of odious organizations that are abiding by the letter of the law in public, but may well have members or private discussions that are likely to tend into serious criminality or terrorism. The KKK is one example, as are right-wing militias, etc. I think it's important that the government be able to conduct some basic level of surveillance on their activities, even without any direct evidence of a crime, or intent to commit a crime.
> It's hard to explain but his intention in much of his writing was coded. He would consistently use certain keywords and phrases to make certain associations and when you follow through the logic it becomes very sinister.
I feel like part of the reluctance with accepting C# and .NET as fully open source platform, outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, is somewhat due to Azure. At the moment, the three main cloud providers basically vendor-lock you. There's no great standard body controlling cloud providers at the moment. Sure Terraform tries it's best to provide cross-provider APIs, but it's not the same as a standard. As such, most companies that pick .NET will pick Azure. Then developers are right back into the feeling of the old-school Microsoft proprietary vendor-lock.

I feel relatively similar about Visual Studio. It's pretty clear that it's a 2nd class citizen on Mac due to being build on top of Mono. Java apps built on the JVM feel pretty much the same whether on Windows or OS X. Mono on the other hand...it just feels like a monkeypatch. I think porting things from Windows to OS X is tough because OS X has so much foundation in UX whereas even new Windows machines are still behind 2009 MacBook Pros. This just makes Windows apps ported to OS X feel sluggish to me (and many of the features are stripped). Purely opinion.

I'm actually trying .NET Code and Visual Studio in a professional setting for the first time and I'm not hating it. WSL is what originally put Microsoft back on my radar and I'm starting to take them more seriously these days.
memcached + rdbms is really super cheap and effective. Properly architected it can be tolerant of all sorts of latency/failure/CAP issues, up to some limits of course.

there was a variant library that allowed you to replace memcached servers on the fly without worrying about the size of the cluster list or having to recache.
Totally agree on environmental factors but the philosophy of a take a train instead of fly domestic, and not fly at all international - is great for countries where you can travel by alternative means to another country, and great for countries where domestic travel doesn't mean a 16hr drive because there is no train infrastructure. For example, this won't work in Australia.
But parent didn't say they wanted that without any refueling. A London - Sydney or London - Melbourne flight would have several eligible refueling locations in Asia and Middle East. Australia - West Coast of the US would be more challenging I guess, but probably not impossible, perhaps some of the diversion airports in the Pacific would be able to support refueling operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversion_airport
Well...

According to this article[0], the early US adopted numerous restrictions on guns based on preexisting English common law, and during the revolutionary war even forbid anyone from owning a firearm without first swearing a loyalty oath to the government[1].

And of course 200 years ago, slaves weren't allowed to own guns for obvious reasons[2]. Of course, slaves weren't considered persons at the time either.

It doesn't appear that there was ever actually a time in the US when gun ownership was completely unrestricted.

[0]https://theconversation.com/five-types-of-gun-laws-the-found...

[1]https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-03-02-0016-...

[2]https://www.sedgwickcounty.org/media/29093/the-racist-origin...
My use case is also to receive e-mails from non gmail/outlook users. In fact if I check my logs 1.5% of messages came from google's smtp service and 1 from outlook, out of last 15000 emails.

So if big provider drops 95% of incomming emails from non-big providers into black void, their service is less than useless to me, and their quality would be at par with small providers that can deliver 95% emails successfully.
Definitely - they just reacted exactly as they have been trained to do.
I added my comment not to imply intentional discrimination, but as a slightly better 'base-rate' than the statistic you offered, which was African-Americans as a proportion of Americans.

I personally think it is most likely that more of the money went to larger corporations than intended.
What are the keys anyway? I'm using a WASD Code Tenkeyless keyboard so only have F1 through F12.
Oh just import few million of refugees, worked everywhere else. /s
There's a chart I saw once, that's I can't find now. Hopefully someone else can, with the description below.

It seems that the vast majority of comparisons of left/right in the US are comparing either how many people identify with one side, or how each side views the other. This particular chart however was part of an article that tried to enumerate the actual political stances of major parties (in the US, and I think it included UK ones as a reference point, but not sure about that - may have been a separate part in the same article) and show how they changed over time.

The structure of this chart was a vertical line graph, where "now" was at the top and the past was at the bottom. I think it went back to around 2000, maybe a little earlier. Being vertical it was rather distinctive and I'm hoping this jogs someone's memory so it can be found again.

On it, over the past 10 years or so, the Republican party has only shifted slightly to the right, while the Democratic party veered way way way to the left.

Edit: Found it: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/26/opinion/sunda...

The specific chart I'm remembering is halfway down the page, and right below it the methodology is described.
Relative to what? We have no idea how much terrorism there would be without the FBI.
You don't want your VPN provider also unwrapping TLS.
I think the value of unit test is to test the logic in software abstraction instead of relying on external dependencies, but I believe many unit test is just for the sake of unit test
PC shipments surge in Q2 as Covid-19 fuels sales
Aren't retroactive laws a thing?
Just remove Siri from the TouchBar then?
Sorry, I conflated my mention of SCOTUS existing "without any meaningful oversight" with your mention of "enforcement mechanism" - I missed that you were replying to someone who replied to me, not directly to me!
- This article describes how the government PPP policy effectively discriminates against Black People - that is a problem in my view - once again there could be other problems.

- 'White' is capitalize cause as used it represents a racial identiy, please see https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/time-to-ca...

- The article is not attempting to establish an "intent" to discrminate so it is irrelevant if Black people are underrespresented as owners of eligible companies. The article is only showing the policy does effectively discrminiate (whether as an intended or unintended consequence).
I don't think it's just rampant in non-democratic vs democratic societies. A colleagues wife had him sit and take her entire online pharmacy class for her, sitting online as her for the entire course. He is a physician and had to actually take the classes themselves because when he tried to sit just for the exam for her he didn't get a high enough score. Other than checking IDs in person for exams, I'm not sure how to prevent someone else sitting behind the computer for you during an online course.
I honestly don't get that. One can enjoy one's career and still enjoy spending time watching movies and reading books. I don't love flying even upgraded economy but I'm perfectly fine flying up front in normal times. Yes, trans-pacific is a bit of a drag but even that isn't a huge deal a few times a year.
And they have an incentive to angle for their next job. Like congress people walking into a lobbying job on the other side of the desk. Conflict of interest
If you do a lot of surveillance, you are going to see a lot of things worth at least investigating. Most will be false positives, but you will still need to investigate... there will be a huge backlash if something happens and it becomes known you had intelligence that something might have been going on and you didn't investigate.

So you investigate a lot of people. If you are good at your job, you will exonerate all the innocent people. So no harm, no foul, right?

Except being investigated really sucks, even if you are found innocent. You might have to answer questions, and knowing a wrong answer could land you in real trouble is stressful and scary, even when totally innocent. Sometimes it is hard to explain context of things when investigators only see parts of it.

The more surveillance you do, the more likely innocent people are going to suffer this stress of investigation.

This will lead to people being less likely to want to participate in social movements because of the added risk of having to be investigated.
A free alternative to BTT-GC if you don't have BTT is MTMR. Has the 3/2 finger slide too.

https://github.com/Toxblh/MTMR
Rotate randomly selected federal judges through the job.
Hungary: Export surplus to Germany
https://oec.world/en/profile/country/hun

Bulgaria: Export surplus to Germany
https://oec.world/en/profile/country/bgr

Romania: Balanced trade
https://oec.world/en/profile/country/rou

Would you mind clarifying what you're referring to?
The 0.20% is if you win no prizes at all. On average including prizes, the EV on an annualized basis is around 3% right now. We are subsidizing some of the prizes currently, which is why it's higher than other HYSAs. In the long run we will aim to match Marcus and Ally, which right now are at around ~1% but go up or down depending on market cycles.
Yeah, well, I don't think that mafia and corruption in a not so rich state are worse than (Euro-) socialism and redistribution on the current Western European scale.
It is notable that, having dicussed things at length, memexy's postition was refined from "coded writing" and "very sinister" to

> Then there are better ways to make those arguments.

which, yes, there quite possibly are. There are always better ways to make any given argument.

But memexy's claim that Scott's work was bad because

> I don't need to argue for freedom of speech and equal rights and justice for all because in my world those are givens.

fails, in my opinion, to understand that there are many people for whom, sadly, those things aren't givens and that arguing that they should be is a lot of Scott's thing.

I would love to live in a world where those things are givens.

I appreciate Scott for making principled arguments for why, ideally, we would live in a world where those things are givens, and I appreciate Scott for, however imperfectly, trying to move us towards such a world as best he can.

(note, this is my (opinionated) summary of the thread that ensued from my sibling comment; if unsure whether I've captured things accurately, please read that whole thread and draw your own conclusions)
Once you start having refueling stops, you're losing a lot of the benefits to supersonic flight. Many of the inefficiencies are in the subsonic range and now you're going to be in queues for takeoff.
> You would have thought they would have led with that.

It's actually very rational, cynically speaking: you don't want to extend the franchise until you're sure that the new guys will "vote the right way", so to speak.
Good product work isn't about ideas or intuition. It should be primarily a research job. You learn about users, work with the team to solve their problems, and then close the loop by testing it with users.

Lots of companies hire people for product work who have no idea what they're doing and no experience doing it. Those people often seem to come from marketing at other firms.

I know I've just outlined a catch-22 for you, but that's unfortunately how some roles work.

My recommendation is to get some quantitative digital marketing experience or approach from the engineering side or offer to do product work for a FOSS product. An example might be something like KeepassXC.
What other public sector workers carry guns?
I’ve removed every control besides volume and mute... and I still accidentally brush them every now and then. The Touch Bar is way too sensitive.
These are both known and highly controversial issues in Germany. The first one is widely accepted as without any alternative. You can't just replace a whole bureaucracy and in retrospect it worked out to only change key positions. But obviously it was a healing and cleaning process over time. The other thing is to be attributed to the fact the we were very quick to abandon atomic power even before climate change issues were that popular. Its a hilarious contradiction. We now actually also have a plan to also get rid of the coal power plants but it will be hard, maybe we need to reintroduce the candle as a source of light. There is no lack of willingness and intent but reality has us all in its tight grip.
Orson Scott Card explores the idea of long sleeps in some of his short stories, with a drug called "somec", and yes, space travel is featured quite a bit. I haven't read them in many years, but I have fond memories of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_(short_story_collect...
Fake Outlook Credential Upgrade Campaign Phishes for Employee Credentials
The correct base rate to use to determine 'effective' discrimintation (as intended or unintended consequence) is the general population.
I’m leaving Sleeping Giants, but not because I want to
This infographic disagrees on the cars vs planes:
https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2017_39/2168831/17092...

It's from this article:
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/best-lifestyle-choice-s...

TLDR: One transatlantic flight is just under giving up driving altogether.
>long ago I concluded that quite broadly, astoundingly, that the media doesn't know how to draw a graph!

I'm almost certain most people doing these graphics know exactly how to draw a graph, it's just that their audience has made it clear that they like incorrect graphs, so long as they reinforce existing beliefs.

Someone, somewhere, has almost certainly done an A/B test of "correct graph" versus "misleading graph" and learned that the latter produces more clicks, shares and revenue.
also to add some items (of course this is all my opinion, so ignore it if you want):

- break up the script into modules and work on one at a time until its solid
- don't assume that items like unattended-upgrades are desirable. In general, where you want to install more software than the user already has installed, it should be an optional module or prompted. Without that I wouldn't use this script for that reason alone.
- some people have a purpose in using firewire and USB. Make it an option (my example: high end studio cameras)
- consider reviewing https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Guidelines/OpenSSH and the release notes for the version of OpenSSH you are configuring. I wouldn't use your configuration.
- why ask how many users to enforce diskquotas on and then ask for which user to enforce a disquota on? Simpler would be to read /etc/passwd (or count /home/<users>), provide a list to mark and then do it.
African tech workers push back on U.S. startup built to help them
Doesn't that only apply to the federal government?
Kubernetes NodePort and Iptables Rules
Diving into how kubernetes NodePort works and the corresponding iptables rules kube-proxy creates. Also, finding answers to operational questions like what happens when a non-kubernetes process uses a NodePort and whether NodePort continues to work if kube-proxy process dies.
Some discussion on this topic: http://health.phys.iit.edu/extended_archive/0407/msg00074.ht...
I think you're right, that this will probably happen, but until there's a vaccine COVID will flare up again and again smashing multiple sectors.
I despised the early incarnation of the TouchBar. I live in Vim, and while I use a 'jj' binding for most Esc scenarios, I still need an actual Escape key. Beyond that, I had three brand-new MacBooks die in the first year with TouchBar failures. It also coincided with the disastrous new keyboard (multiple failures there too). It was enough to make me buy a ThinkPad and swear off literally all Apple products for a few years.

My new job just sent me a new MacBook, and I was dreading it. I'm happy to report that it has a physical Escape key (smaller and imperfect, but sufficient), and the keyboard feels better overall. I still don't want the TouchBar, and still get no use out of it, but it no longer enrages me. I'm open to accepting and even embracing it if I ever see a good use case. One thing that continues to bother me is that it changes as I'm typing, and I don't want that. But I can see a path for apps to use it in a positive way.