skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's scary to think. Truth is actually scary. Stories are way better for most people
> I never understood the need for geoip unless you ship spyware.

There are many many cases where it’s relevant. Others have mentioned prepopulating or ease of use aspects. But you’re making big assumptions that the client has an interactive user at all. It’s important where you don’t own the client or there is defined behavior, say at a protocol behavior, that must be respected. Moving earlier than that there are cases where you need to route traffic before any sort of connection is even established.

I suspect you’re also underestimating geolocation precision and accuracy. Free datasets will get you the right state or city say 90-95% of the time. Cheap datasets get you to the right town or post code 95-97% of the time. Expensive or bespoke multi source datasets will get you reasonable post code, neighborhood, or even household & address accuracy. Think of cross correlating order histories per physical address, device fingerprints, and IP addresses/triangulation.
The first look at the gameplay of expansionist, sci-fi RTS Chaotic Era
The privacy features of NAT are due to the NAT part (mixing your traffic together with all the other traffic so you look like a single entity rather than multiple), not a firewall (which is merely a side effect of a NAT and has nothing to do with privacy).
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My own - limited - experience with substances like these was that they didn't so much cause an upswell of positive feelings as that they suppressed their usual inhibitors.

Perhaps it's because I was very involved in theatre at a young age, but I feel I can manufacture that kind of affection endogenously quite reliably, what stops me from doing so more is a host of complex counterfactors. It's these counterfactors that I feel substances like these suppressed.
Brain Science at Heartifacts
I would strongly argue against your claim that altering brain chemistry strips experience of meaning. That is a highly biased statement based on a few strong, and IMO false, assumptions.
“it’s just a mindset”, takes all responsibility off of the ruling class and places it all on the backs individual. While I’m all for taking responsibility for oneself in a rigged system, I’m not going to pretend the system isn’t rigged and shouldn’t be fixed. Imagine if we promoted approaching flawed and broken software architecture like this.
The parent said "very few people have that kind of soft landing."

The fact is, having parents with a place you can crash at is perfectly normal. If your parents weren't complete degenerates or very unlucky, they have a couch you can sleep on. Anybody who's startup founder material can at that point find themselves a job.
You might want to have a look at how "top" schools are calculated

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/how-...

Financial related:

Faculty resources 20%
"Expert opinion" 20%
Financial resources 10%
Alumni giving 5%

Academic related:

Outcomes 35%
Student excellence 10%
Is this verifiable? I saw a comment on that page saying:

> I’m not saying you couldn’t win a kickboxing tournament like that. I just think it’d be nice if he at least gave the year and location of the tournament so interested parties could look into it.
The more I am unfortunately exposed to this after catching ME/CFS the more I realise medicine has a huge professionalism problem. Maybe a better term is a religious problem. Anything they cant currently explain is the patients fault. Having chronic energy fatigue issues is just me being lazy apparently and the enormous crashes I get after exercise are me doing wrong. The hundreds of thousands of c19 patients that develop this condition will get the same thing.

To me it looks like most of them lack professional curiosity and certainly basic empathy. I lost all my respect for doctors over the 6 years based on how I have been treated.
I mostly agree with this: am pretty much a Free Speech absolutist.

However, I can't help but suspect that the reason we're hearing arguments about this now is because the liberal-Left are aggressively exercising their intolerance instead of the conservative-Right, who have had it all their way for a long time.

Aside: I don't think lumping liberals and leftists in together is useful. There is a strong dislike of the trend towards censorship voiced by those that are economically on the left. The embrace of censorship is coming from the corporate/capitalist/liberal side of things. Most on the left are well aware that censorship will be used against them first.
...so someone else can install the updates that break the server? Check your SLA, no cloud provider is going to pay you much compensation when the service goes down
No, the author claimed that NC A&T was "a damn good one [school]".

The author was trying to put it on the same level as Duke/UNC in order to paint a picture that the only possible reason for the perfunctory treatment was racism. But NC A&T is not on the same level. "Hooli" is almost certainly elitist, but this anecdote is not good evidence for systemic racism.
"Karen" is rooted in the stereotype of an over-bearing, entitled person in a customer service setting. Our prejudices tell us that person is probably a white soccer mom. So she gets a name we associate with the white soccer mom demographic.

You argue that "Karen" doesn't refer to whiteness, the middle-classes or the female gender - it just refers directly to the stereotype and therefore it's OK.

I invite you follow the same logic here.

Consider the stereotype of a gun-toting street gang member. Our prejudices may tell us that person is probably a young black male that lives in a big city. So he gets a name we associate with the young black urban male like "Deshawn" .

The logic is the same, yes?

If you're OK with "there goes Karen calling the cops on the Walmart clerk again", you should be OK with "there goes Deshawn shooting the neighborhood up again".

Are you?
"Probably" aka use some common sense.

People frequently write business code like this:

# Setup the main data
doSomeProcessWithData(data)

# Do the other process
doTheNextProcess(data)

# Check if thing X due to some requirement
if (some check happens):
# Do the workaround
<some hack which currently works>

# Finish up
dispatchItToZ()

And provided this works, okay, no problem. But the reality is this is going to get deployed, hit some edge case requirements didn't cover, and start failing. Written as this, someone is probably looking at that output wondering where it's failing.

If on the other hand each of those comments was a debug log level line, as they should be, then at minimum the logs now have a mode where they document exactly what happens and why (of course a business process should be logged at Info IMO).
Yeah in the freeworld we dont kidnap people for damaging wall paint. Anyway enjoy your erosion of rights - they already deny you plenty.
> Filter bubbles are seen as critical enablers of Brexit, Trump, Bolsonaro, and other populist political phenomena, and search and social media companies have been criticised for failing to prevent their development. Yet, there is scant empirical evidence for their existence, or for the related concept of ‘echo chambers’: indeed, search and social media users generally appear to encounter a highly centrist media diet that is, if anything, more diverse than that of non-users.

https://www.doi.org/10.14763/2019.4.1426
This isnt strictly true. Although gay/trans rights are not recognized by law, there is no real enforcement of the law itself. People are to some degree free to do/be as they please. As for non-muslims, it hasnt ever been an issue - there are churches and hindu temples around as well.

Source: lived in dubai for most of my life
The author Douglas Rushkoff ("Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus," etc.) has a lot of good things to say about the long term dangers of relying on huge retailers like Amazon (and now apparently Google).

I am making an effort to find much smaller online retailers. About 4 months ago I started using VitaCost for some food items, an to be honest their service initially was not great (possibly they were overwhelmed at the beginning of covid-19 lock-down). However, they just kept getting better and better and now I use my shopping history to reorder very quickly. Reading their privacy policy, they do share your purchase history with marketing partners and I can only hope this is on a smaller scale than having Google having my purchase history.

A counter example: my wife and I needed a new coffee pot and I knew the brand I wanted. I went to that company's web site, tried to order, but was referred to Amazon and Walmart Online. Oh well.
This looks similar to the logline pitch suggested in Save The Cat by Blake Snyder, or really most books on scriptwriting. Hell, it could even be said for writing your thesis. Always focus hard on your idea, or you logline, as it were, or the premise of your thesis. Once clearly defined, worded and outlined, it can both keep you on track and lead your project, and it may serve as a basis to get early feedback on your idea from the real world.
I don't know what "the choice of what they want to do with their network" means. Is there something that you are able to do with a dynamic IP address that you are somehow unable to do behind NAT+PCP? (I mostly hear people complain about stuff that makes no sense, like "I can't do peer to peer connections", when the core problem there was already 100% solved by PCP.)
> But there needs to be evidence that this stuff actually works.

It is not in short supply.
How many bad apples makes a police black site?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-poli...
I think doomscrolling is quite related to this -
Obsessively reading social media posts about how utterly fucked we are.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doomscrollin...
Standard Chartered, Mercury, Tsuru Capital (Haskell), Jane Street (OCaml) don't seem to have a problem with using a statically typed language in the financial space.
I don't think any of the new development platforms have gotten even close to how accessible it was to make games in flash - pre as3 was the perfect combination of ease of art creation and programming
“Decade” isn’t a technical term, which is the point here. It has no intrinsic meaning except “a span of ten years”. Everything else is nominal, not technical; conflating the two is basically nerd sniping, and enlightens no-one.
> climate models appear to be more conservative than reality

I've read this sentence multiple times and still not sure what it means. Would you please expound?
> So what is this article saying? Me and my family just do not have perseverance?

I think it's more likely that if you're not depressed, chronically anxious or having panic attacks, you'll find it far easier to muster some perseverance.
Global quieting in seismic noise due to lockdown
From a fellow Aussie: I'm in Melbourne atm in the midst of the latest C19 outbreak and I wish I was there
...walking on rural roads at night where there is no footpath is horrendously dangerous...

Do you have to walk on the road? One might have expected that in rural areas one could walk through fields and forests.
>And we'd be so much better if we'd recognize that a non-heroic life is just as good as any other.

This is something I've struggled to come to terms with. But looking at my grandpa as an example, he had some plaques and things commemorating him in his local community after he died. He wasn't a hero and he didn't change the world (outside of, by all accounts, being a decent dad and husband), but he was an invested and involved member of his local community.

I'm not the local community type (like being nomadic too much) but my parallel is contributing work to open source projects I use. It's not heroic or a big life goal, but it'll leave the open source community very slightly better than it would have been without me, and that's something.
To put this in context: for imagine the largest, and one of the last remaining independent news site in a country where most of the media is centrally controlled. Criticism of the government in that media is unknown. This site is read by close to half of the online population. The government is clearly irritated by this.

This site was Index, in Hungary. The editorial board resigning is a response of the takeover attempt from government sources.

Going forward, the largest, independent news outlet accessible to Hungarians will like be the Guardian and the New York Times.

If this was happening in an autocratic country, we’d just shrug. But this happening in an EU country, in a democracy.

The question begs itself: can a democracy with no independent, local press be considered a democracy still?
It’s born out of a system that seeks to protect the owners of capital by scapegoating the workers and making it the workers problem, rather than the problem of the people with the political power and money to make meaningful change.
First proper computer music I have ever heard was Sweet Dreams by The Eurithmics on a BBC Micro.
I think it’s the wrong metric to look at. Static typing still leaves plenty of room for bugs. The capability and discipline of the team would likely be more of a factor than the type system so the studies would be hard to get right.

However I do think static typing provides an enormous benefit to picking up code that is 5 years old and written by someone else. The ability to see “this is a nonnullable int32 value type” greatly reduces the amount of paths you have to go down when you have to change something or understand what’s going wrong with it. Tradeoff is you end up with a lot more code to maintain...
Couples who work together do have midlife crisis. Children who leave the province do it for a reasons you don't agree. Misery, might or might not be a consequence of "moving from the province" or not having a goal.
Personally I agree with your overall point and disagree with the presentation.
Your examples look like busy work, disguised as meaningful and fulfilling. Something you'd amusingly read in the index of a self-help book, picked up out of curiosity in a dusty box at a garage sale.
To sum up, some people pointed out, that this idea might not be transient to others. It requires the dedication, not just to patrol your life, but to patrol the lives of those who might unknowingly be part of your personal mission.
Are you claiming that the 50% difference in SAT scores is solely due to a biased test? That seems a little outlandish of a claim.
Yes, the advantage is getting the actual IPO price, rather than buying on the open market. For example, BYND IPO'd at $25, but shares hit the open market in the mid $40s (and climbed very quickly into the $60s). That kind of performance is obviously not guaranteed, but is not exactly atypical for hot offerings.
Not meant to be snarky, but PG seems to have rediscovered the big five personality traits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits specifically agreeableness and openness. For people that want to learn more, Jordan Peterson has a great video lecture series about it https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQApSdW8X71I...
Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria. Disgrace of the EU. Wonder how long this can go on. Probably forever because the whole leadership of the EU is incredibly weak and divided.
As someone from the real world, I just read comments like this and laugh. Most of the alarmism is based solely on a few nasty twitter threads. There is no real speech suppression going on (except, maybe, by the right wingers in power), but the leftists and mobs reminiscent of the soviet era certainly don't have any power right now. People pull out the 'i am from a soviet state' card all the time and it's just so far removed from the present day United States I can only recommend you take a break from the web.
Out of curiosity, what country offers disability benefits for these conditions?

This is for me a (as a fellow sufferer of some of these conditions, who has never received any state support and doesn't even have health insurance) an extremely shaky moral ground.

Because 95% of the homeless population and drug addicts are clinically diagnosable of most of these conditions under DSM IV definitions. And almost none of them receive anything.
While looking for more info on Kharkovhanka 2, I found a blog of a russian guy who actually lives on the Vostok station [1]. There is an additional engine+generator inside [2], which is used for heating of the interior, but probably can also be used to heat up the main engine.

I was not aware of the fact that all the stations in Antarctic are on the ice actually, so they drift as time passes. There is a map of that [3]. Given the extremely low humidity, non-existing grounding (since the station is on the ice), when there is a blizzard or strong wind outside, snowflake rub themselves, and the station accumulates significant static charge which affects all the equipment.

[1] https://pikabu.ru/@deratizator (in russian, but google translate is capable of translating most of the text, except profanity words which appear occasionally to highlight the complexity of life in such climate conditions :) )

[2] https://pikabu.ru/story/kharkovchankaii_5499165 (still in russian, same blog)

[3] https://cs7.pikabu.ru/post_img/big/2017/12/11/7/151299321313...
The fake’s username shows up in green is a sufficient flag. What more do you want? I like the unverified functionality
I applaud your efforts but it's disingenuous to title this how you "made a geolocation service" when you are just reading a field in someone else's geolocation service.
We software engineers are still more like alchimists rather than chemists.

That list reminds me of [1], which rants about this state of affairs and [2] that puts many beliefs to the test.

[1] https://youtu.be/WELBnE33dpY

[2] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/making-software/9780596...
That seems like a pretty large hurdle, compared to today where it seems they're just creating as many accounts as they want. There isn't a single political tweet without a bunch of bot garbage as replies. I assume any name with 8 digits at the end is a bot and an auto-block (and these are all over political tweets), but there are so many more tweets that are highly suspicious once you go in and look at their feed.
The full quote is as follows:

Stop watching the news
Because the news contrives to frighten you
To make you feel small and alone
To make you feel that your mind isn't your own

And is from the song "Spent the Day in Bed".

It is relevant here as the mice in the experiment loose control over their "mind" and start behaving in a self defeating manner.
I think PG's a product of his world. He isn't an expert in personality or psychology, so he looks to other tech leaders as thought leaders and independent saviors, and he is regurgitating commonly held views about Left and Right to fit his construct. He does so with extremely scant evidence, because his task is to make a snappy essay, not a coherent theory with strong evidence.
I think it gives people a sense of satisfaction in modeling real world in the relations between classes. The assertion seems to be that if to solve a problem it has to be correctly modelled into the type system of the language. Once the modelling is done correctly solution will arise by itself.

On the other end people who prefer weakly typed languages see problems as primarily that of data transformation. For example from HTML Form to Http Request to SQL Db to CSV File and so on.

Both approaches are differentiated by the perspective on the problem.
If only the stakes were as low as the scroll lock key...
There is a lot more to negotiation than the multiple buyers scenario.
I checked the world rankings by CWUR https://cwur.org and it's below second-tier universities from my country which are all pretty low down the list to begin with.

Nevertheless if the details of this story are true this company might have well not bothered visiting.

Whenever I set a benchmark for tone-deafness someone eventually swoops in and makes me re-evaluate it.
They went under because they were not allowed to raise fares to the level needed to support them this wasn't the market, it was the law.
What part of seeing the sausage Being made turned You off from eating it?
Was it this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIInPfgYNeQ
> Study finds information acquisition shares the same dopamine producing reward system pathway as food, financial rewards and drugs.

https://neurosciencenews.com/information-addiction-brain-142...
To me, this linked reference to the Wikipedia entry is a more compelling read, http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brow...
The only rebuttal to PG in your comment is ARAMCO, which was a state-run org till recently, and is nothing like the companies PG is talking about.

Try again.
Working on https://histre.com/

I just launched the highlights feature:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPBdE8kMYmo

https://histre.com/features/highlights/

The users I've talked to are excited and have asked for integrations. So I'm working on that next.
Ask HN: Is “Ownership Vacuum” a Thing?
Sometimes an organization has a part of the process that no one is responsible for.

More accurately, there's no one person that is both held responsible and empowered to make sure that part of the process works.

By analogy to "power vacuum", it's tempting to call this pattern an "ownership vacuum".

Is there a more common term?
I think the exercise of considering which historical atrocities you would passively comply with is a good exercise for understanding the banality of evil. PG did little to argue his moral superiority from this perspective, rather highlighted how different people conform to the norm, regardless of the virtue (or lack thereof) of the norm itself. The many anti-slavery individuals of the past still largely did nothing for hundreds of years until popular opinion and material conditions changed tides.

You point out that he did have an axe to grind regarding cancel culture, and highlight that it's not particularly heroic. But in doing so it makes it even more apparent that the anti-cancel-culture crowd is passive and ineffective, making his point clearer.

He could have made the same point regarding conformity by citing the Stanford prison experiment if he wanted to. I'd be willing to bet a dollar that there are personality psychology studies that even correlate 5-factor personality traits to moral conformity. Unfortunately popular culture is bit too much of the opinion that there are no underlying personality traits that predict future behavior nowadays.
> It's important to make the distinction between people who feel like they're in favour of freedom of speech, and people who are actually in favour of freedom of speech.

Exactly. I think it's clear which group Graham falls into.
FAA issues emergency directive on 2,000 Boeing 737 NG, Classic planes
Have you already read them all?
I don’t get the cost claims. The time it takes to note which type I intend something to be is mostly either so low that I recover it via improved hints and such very quickly, or larger but only because I’m documenting something complex enough that I should have documented it anyway, whether or not I was using static types, because it’ll be hell for other people or future-me to figure out otherwise. It seems like a large time savings to me—throw in faster and more confident refactoring and stuff like that, and it’s not even close.

I just don’t get how people are working that it represents a time cost rather than a large time savings. I don’t mean that as a dig, I just mean I genuinely don’t know what that must look like. And I’ve written a lot more code in dynamic languages, and got my start there, so it’s not like I “grew up” writing Java or something like that.