skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My family in China are amazed that we in the US don't recognize the parallels between the marxist revolutionaries and violent Red Guards in China and today's US. The One Party that controls more and more of the institutions, the "news" reporters whose mission is obviously to sell the revolutionary narrative so the few stories that support the narrative are huge and meaningful while the much larger number of parallel examples that contradict the narrative are hidden by various means, all the entertainers gradually speaking with the same voice and same approved opinions as the "news", silencing of debate at the academies and ongoing purge of anyone suspected of harboring counter-revolutionary ideas there and in many other institutions and employers, young people taught that smart, independent thinkers such as themselves will become heroes by denouncing their parents and anyone they suspect of clinging to old ideas....

People who hear almost nothing that doesn't support the revolutionary narrative and are bombarded with stories about how those who "bravely" denounce dissenters are "heroes", and especially young people with little worldly success to be proud of, go on a rampage to feel the thrill of glory and power over others. The Red Guards are born. They burn whatever, destroy whatever, attack whomever, for whatever excuse they can come up, confident they'll be lauded as heroes by the "news" if they can somehow claim they are fighting enemies of the revolution, and if they can make it dramatic enough to compete with all the other aspiring heroes for attention. Because for most Red Guards, it's all about the thrill of feeling powerful and important.

My Chinese relatives frankly feel a bit of schadenfreude about it. "So, you were supposedly the ones with all the freedom to think and say whatever you wanted, criticize whoever you wanted, and freely argue for your own opinions. We were the ones who were forced to keep our mouths shut and not say what we really thought because we were still stuck with a conform-and-submit culture that wasn't yet enlightened."
> The bigger problem with this is that the IT systems are not as well defined or a closed system as the other examples might be. A ledger would be simple to verify in comparison: you apply a fixed set of rules to a fixed period of data and it must result in something within a known range. With software you can do a little bit of determining that the 'borders' of your 'box' of functionality would be, but to do an exhaustive verification is so far from profitable that it's only done in a few highly regulated systems like flight controllers.

That's a really good point. We haven't even settled on how to weed out bad programmers through a formal structure yet, and we still sometimes hear about companies setting KPIs based on LoC or bugs fixed. I'm not sure if it's even possible to have an objective framework to evaluate an outsourced system apart from "meets the spec" which is usually not very helpful unless there is in-house expertise spending a mountain of effort building the spec in the first place.
Aviation regulations are written in blood.

They are the only reason you can step into an aircraft with a reasonable expectation of making it safely to your destination. Disasters are generally not caused by obvious large issues, but a multitude of smaller compounding, seemingly benign causes that could otherwise be easily dismissed. The massive body of regulation around aviation is a direct result of this. Each one is almost always a direct response to a particular incident that killed people.
Only in the North Sea.

Fun fact, the trawlers they fired on where from my home town and there is a statue to the ones killed not a mile from where I was born, it’s a small world in many ways.

The resulting war would have likely changed Europe as well, in 1904 the U.K. was still the pre-eminent global naval power but a dreadnought isn’t a lot of use on the steppes.
Depending on what angle you come at this from, you could say that DOMA groups services into clusters ("domains"), as Uber has done here, or that services always should have been domain-driven, and DOMA welcomes the networking layer inside the bounded context as well.

I've spent a lot of time trying to understand when a microservices architecture makes sense, what the caveats are, and what philosophy one should take to building services. All the material I've read seems to point in the direction of services being ideally coupled to domain boundaries.

It seems to me that Uber's services proliferated beyond the framing of bounded contexts, and DOMA is their attempt to reign it back in again. I think it's an excellent strategy, and arguably a very good approach for other companies who find themselves in this position.

I don't think DOMA is a good place to stay at. The network should only be tolerated as long as it provides benefits that outweigh the costs. "Monolith" is not synonymous with "poor design". Seeing that these enclaves of services sitting within a domain depend on eachother in the way the OP describes, it really makes me think that they'd find further benefits by expelling the network from each domain.
> how does anybody imagine that a novel aerial vehicle like this actually IS CERTIFIED within a lifetime?

All of the aircraft in existence have been certified in what is (for a very old person) one lifetime. I think we’ll be fine.

Their schedule seems to have 5 years for development, and 5 more for certification.

That seems reasonable.
A newsletter subscriber list is incredibly higher in value than most blog visitor traffic.

They have chosen to subscribe, you can contact them. You don't know your RSS subscriber count. It is a more highly engaged group, easier to build a relationship with.

And the number of people using RSS compared to using email who would consider a newsletter subscription is tiny.
Specialties are usually small worlds where everyone knows everyone, reviews, funding grants recommendations flow between them, as do postdocs and graduate students. Stirring up as little water as possible and playing into the hands of the others is incentivized.
And it's a bit worse than that even because of inflation. You buy some shares of Verizon for $21.11 in 1990, you sell them for $56.85 today, they claim you have a taxable gain of $35.74. But 20.62 of that was just inflation, so the rate you're paying on the last bit is really ~47% rather than 20%.
To be fair, that should be an effective way of making the problem of data privacy a problem of the companies leaving their databases open.
There's an article in Wikipedia about a galaxy and its relative distance that touches on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDF_423
Setting up a custom AI chatbot is so annoying. There are so many tools out there but they all seem to miss a feature that you REALLY need.

Most times they all force you to pay to have that “Powered by….” imprint removed and AI doesn’t work.

How about a done-for-you solution?

These Chatifai guys set up a simple custom chatbot in 72 hours after placing your order!

https://bit.ly/customchatbot
Where was gravity when the universe was hot and dense ?
Not really a "blog" per se but Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" newsletter is frequently cross-posted on Hacker News (usually for columns about Tesla, WeWork, and Robinhood) but he's hands-down one of the best writers at the intersection of business and law/regulation. Once you learn about his themes re: "Everything Is Securities Fraud" and "Should Index Funds Be Illegal?" you will see it pop up in reality on a daily basis.

You can subscribe to his newsletter here: http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-s...
Is your product open source?
* Steven Pinker (attempted)
Tesla vehicles actually require much more frequent repairs than similar gas cars.

https://www.truedelta.com/Tesla-Model-S/repair-frequencies-1...
> This used to be called "secular stagnation". There's not much forward progress, but nobody really understands why. Japan hit this first, in their 1989 housing crash. In the mid-1980s, Japan seemed poised to dominate the world economy. After the crash, Japan never came back.

Scott Sumner disagrees on no one understanding this. They’re not printing enough money. Basic sketch of the market monetarist position is that Friedman was right about money being really important but very, very wrong about the appropriate target. Keep printing money until nominal GDP growth hits target, then stop. Better to target NGDP future to reduce instability. Japan’s central bank’s is up there with the Fed causing the Great Depression by contracting the money supply by a third at the beginning of a recession in terms of economic mismanagement.
This really is the answer. In the past I would have regarded this as horribly cynical, but not so now. You're not being paid enough to risk your career by crusading for truth, or to go down with the ship.

None of this means you can't or shouldn't do good work, even somewhere badly managed. Do good work, polish your resume, and disappear without a trace.
Export your old Facebook status posts to a searchable personal journal
> who demanded the setting to turn the "stop light" window controls and Aqua blues to grey

It's possible I just tuned this out and never noticed the stop lights going away, but I'm running the latest beta of Big Sur while typing this and the stop lights are definitely back, if so!
I saw a paper indicating that ethanol and isopropanol are not readily absorbed through the skin, but can enter as fumes -- enough to show up on an (overly sensitive) drug screen.

I would expect methanol might be similar, although it is quite a bit smaller. However, I wasn't able to find any information on this. Any sources?
I'm really sorry if that is all you got out of Norwegian history classes. Though I might add that what you get out of it is indeed highly dependent on who you get as a history teacher, because the books themselves are appalling. I would know. I'm an adjunkt (official Norwegian teaching title).

Personally I think I'm quite lucky. I got a self-appointed, and rather proud Marxist as a history teacher in upper secondary school. He solemnly declared that, while this was indeed his conviction, he would not let it colour his classes. Then he went on to give us college lectures about WWI and the Russian Revolution, because he trusted us to be smart enough to understand it anyway.

I shall never forget these amazing classes, but this style of teaching didn't sit well with the, shall we say, less aware pupils in the class, who promptly wrote up a complaint against his use of difficult to understand concepts and use of academic language.

After a meeting between us, him and the principal, he declared that he was very disappointed with us, and that—despite the authors retracting the complaint—he would not continue as a teacher for our class anymore. Then he donned his motorcycle gear and rode off on his Harley. I'm telling you! You can't make this shit up! :D

The next day we got a brand new history teacher. Instead of teaching, he would merely read up passages from the pre-approved history book, in the most passive and uninspired way possible. Then he would give us the lamest of lame assignements such as, "describe who was the prime minister of Great Britain during World War II and why," and other such mindblowingly boring stuff. Meanwhile the Marxist teacher would tell us interesting tidbits about Churchill and his role in the sinking of the USS Lusitania, and fascinating stuff like "contra-factual hypothesis", and so on.

You're probably wondering how I feel about Marxism now. Well, let's just say that I think it's a failed philosophy. But the stories that extremely Marxist teacher shared with us, were so good and so captivating, that they have simply stuck with me and everyone who were lucky enough to have this true rebell as a history teacher.

Anway, if you're still not satisfied, and just want bloody good "history lessons," then I can highly recommend the podcast Blueprint for Armageddon, about WWI as told by Dan Carlin.
Hi,

I am a LPR and applied for a GC for my spouse 1.5 years ago.

Our I-130 was approved last March, however NVC has never receive the file. It seems that USCIS just never transferred the file to NVC even after more than 4 months.

We have sent multiple requests to NVC Research, and recently made an Ombudsman request however this does not seem to help.

What are our options at that point if USCIS just holds our file hostage for no reason?

Thank you.
Amazon has become very difficult. I end up using ebay more and more: sellers there are small businesses and they bear more responsibility. It feels more decentralized. Longer shipping, but cheaper and more reliable.
I'm in one of those categories and I have managed to sniff out a few other people, but it's all very hush-hush. I'm the only one who is "out of the closet" in any way, and that's just because I didn't realize that people in blue areas found guns so repulsive.
Ah, sorry, I was looking at the wrong item on "Can I Use...", @font-face: font-variation-settings, rather than the "Variable Fonts" item which covers font-variation-settings outside of @font-face rules.

https://caniuse.com/#search=font-variation-settings

And I am running an ancient version of macOS, 10.12, which explains my issue, as it's only supported on macOS 10.13+ in Firefox.

I have a new (non-macOS) laptop in transit, but my current daily driver is an old Mac.

Sorry for the alarm!
I've lived in the US my entire life, and I was confused by your abbreviations. I don't know what "TFA" means, either.
I have two tricks.

1) ignore 1 and 5 star reviews. This filters out the gut reactions, and the 2s and 4s reviews are generally a lot more level-headed and informative

2) pick an area with a good density of restaurants. Just go there and go into whichever is busy
If you don't mind sharing, on what metrics (or other independently verifiable information) are we set back a decade? To make it easy on you and not go all "citation needed", names of the metrics will be sufficient. I'll go look at the numbers myself as close to 2010 as possible and as close to 2020 as possible and provide sources here, if I can.

Then if possible I'll compare last June to this June and see if it looks closer to June 2010.
I am thinking if they made a larger / Taller HeatSink Apple TV it would actually be a MacCube.

May be even a Wireless Charger on Top so you could charge your future mouse, Apple Watch and iPhone on it.
Seems to me that big progress will be made when we can decouple system boundaries from network calls.
This reads like it was written by a neural network
Sanders, Warren, and Wyden back national facial recognition ban bill
> This is being done to satisfy India's government so Apple can sell phones in India.

What do you mean? Apple has been selling phones in India for several years now.
Most hand sanitizers seem to include glycerin, which will burn with a yellow flame as I remember. It's worth looking more into this type of testing though, I don't know if the concentrations of glycerin would be enough to effect the flame color.
The Battle of Samar is my 2nd favourite.

> "After 17 bombs and 19 torpedoes, at least some of which were probably unnecessary..

> After firing all their armor penetration rounds, they switched to high explosive, then anti-aircraft, then starshells which was was surprisingly effective as it caused a massive number of fires to break out

That and the USS Johnston,

> "[Johnson] seeing the ship under attack by a Heavy Cruiser, it promptly shoots up this ship as well....because of course it does."

A light destroyer escort mistaken for a cruiser because literally no light destroyer captain would charge a fleet and trade fire with a cruiser (never mind damage it so badly it was out the fight then trade fire with another and then we’ll watch the video it’s surreal), it’s so unthinkable that to stay in a sane world where the rules made sense it had to be a cruiser.

That and the pilot landing his plane, helping defend the airfield then buggering off into the jungle coming back with a new wing to replace his damaged one.

If it was a movie you simply wouldn’t believe it.

And it should be a movie.
Basically clumping microservices
That is super cool! I always wonder why we don’t have something like this if we hear a story about a nonresponsive aircraft eventually running out of fuel and flying into a mountain.
Yeah they're cool; basically they take on your employees full-time and subcontract them back to you. This way they're fully papered up, and can even provide benefits. They're not the cheapest way to go, but once you have a big enough presence in a foreign country you can always open up a local office of your own and transfer them over.
Arguments aren't always going to help, even strong ones. They can go against inertia, lack of will to get into some ideas and so on. So whether you resist to say "I told you so" or not, don't expect to always be able to prevent such kind of outcomes simply with argumentation. Some just learn the hard way.

If they are at least willing to learn from their own mistakes, one time will be enough. And if not, no amount of arguments will help anyway.

And, you totally should be critical to those who didn't listen when they could. Don't simply shift the blame on the arguments.
Cooking will reliably send CO2 over the 3000 ppm threshold that my sensor can detect and report. I always use the extraction fan now.
Here's the closest thing I could find:

The TypeScript Tax: A Cost vs. Benefit Analysis - https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-typescript-tax-132ff...

The author leans against TypeScript, but does cite some relevant studies on the benefits.

---

One of the cited articles:

To Type or Not to Type: Quantifying Detectable Bugs in JavaScript - http://earlbarr.com/publications/typestudy.pdf (PDF)
in a sense it's really hard to create a being that is superior in all scenarios rather than superior in specific scenarios.

For example, roughly speaking, being a tall and very muscular person can be a disadvantage in a famine. Or being much much smarter than your peers can be a disadvantage in certain social scenarios that get you expelled for non-conformity...

I imagine we will see a similar issue with transhumanism, where the resultant products are better in some scenarios, but also worse in others.
Self driving cars rev their engines for their own Indy 500 race
Why are stories of FGM practice and prevalence happening in the 21st Century?
The R44 has a tiny cargo capacity. It's not really viable for a family of 4 that want to bring skis with them.
If you are not receptive to what someone has to say, that does not mean that the person delivering the message has bad communication skills.

Some mediocre excuses to not be receptive are:

- Because you are superficial.

- Because that person is not important and therefore you don't have to listen to that person.

- Because you only want to be seen talking to important people.

- Because ignoring people makes you feel important.

- Because you do not want to admit that you do not understand what is being said to you.

- Because it is not that person's job to be thinking about that.

- Because you perceive people that care about data as "negative people".

All of these are lousy excuses. Real organizations leverage the combined thinking power of each member.

"We don't hire smart people to tell them what to do, we hire smart people to tell us what to do" - Steve Jobs

"It doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice" - Deng Xiaoping
What's wrong with economic reasons?

What good is freedom and democracy if it doesn't give you enough to eat?

Economic trouble is was causes totalitarianism.
Reading through the number of off target effects and poor controllability of the process in this cow, this just makes the case of the CRISPR baby that much sadder. This is why irresponsible biohackers self injecting with crispr and unethical scientists experimenting on human embryos they intend to implant to form full humans are so deeply flawed and reviled. I'm excited that we have this data from cows to start getting a better sense of what embryo editing in complex animals does look like so if and when we eventually engineer human embryos properly to rid the world of debilitating genetic disease, we understand the science at play and how to control it.
I tried Deepin on my 4K laptop a few months ago to try it out and see how "beautiful" it was. Unfortunately I'm a laptop hoarder and when I go to reach for a laptop to use I tend to pull one that is running Kubuntu instead. I couldn't get used to the centered menu bar and a lack of being able to make changes was frustrating. I don't see this as much different than that...but I may give it a whirl when I get a few minutes to format that 4K laptop.
I do not have any hard numbers on this information, although my general understanding is that social mobility has decreased lately. Unfortunately, that may be due to a number of reasons. Excluded from this conversation (luck vs. merit) is nepotism, for example, which is neither.

I am suspicious that this is not unintentional.
High precision glass polishing with ketchup
I don't really understand his criticism of dane, given that lets encrypt allows anyone controlling dns to get certs.
I'll make sure to do that in the future, but I _just_ created this account after lurking for a long time, and didn't want to immediately plug my stuff. That would feel like a bit of an abuse of the community. I will _happily_ gather data though:)
"One benefit of working together in person, many
executives said, is the potential for spontaneous
interactions.
...
She noticed that she was soon having conversations
with peers that wouldn’t have happened in a remote
set up—a discussion sparked by a passing question
in the hall"

I can relate to this. I miss the impromptu conversation about idea -> whiteboarding session -> JIRAs -> new features, new design, etc.

WFH was great for the first month or so but at this point I find myself missing going into the office. Once the vaccine arrives I plan to switch to around 4 days on site / 1 day WFH.
> The network should only be tolerated as long as it provides benefits that outweigh the costs.

I agree. There should be no need to use network calls to enforce interface boundaries if you have a cohesive bounded context.

Or to be snarky about it, welcome to 2004 Uber! Eric Evans sends his regards!
“Satellite-as-a-Service”: A New Approach to Space Exploration
Congratulations, you’ve invented Bridgewater’s controversial “evidence based” decision making systems as put forward by Ray Dalio. From what I’ve heard, the controversial part is that they often ignore evidence when it doesn’t suit their case/etc. and that employees can be uncomfortable/unused to being recorded all the time.
In my experience a well reasoned and methodical "that won't work" is far less common than plain old grumbling.

The cliche of the curmudgeon developer exists for a reason. There are a lot of people who default to picking holes in any plan. They don't acknowledge the times they were wrong (and the project succeeded) or the fact that complaining about a solution doesn't actually help the problem get solved.
Yes, I think the 50 mil number was off. Add discounts, tax breaks etc., and we are talking less than sticker price for the whole setup minus real estate.
Well, we all know why that is the case: uncertainty. If I pay $100k for a thing, I'm actually paying $100k for a chance at the thing by the date. Most likely, I'm going to end up paying 2x for the thing by 2x the time. Happens everywhere.

And that's not because the guy making it is shit. It's because while he's making it, the market is moving and I'm watching it, and when it moves enough I have to come over to him and tell him to change things.

That's why slow, costly things overrun by more and are later. It's because the world changes, and fast+cheap things are superior because even if they're worse, they exist and can therefore be changed to what the world is.