skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it too, but not for the reasons you mention. It works only with disciplined and responsible people. We had a few of them since the 80ies, none of them are in operation anymore to my knowledge. Because the people abused them, which led to many service interruptions, expensive repairs, and so on. Maybe in some future upper class condominiums like in Elysium, with properly trained and well behaved Eloys, but not here on Earth :)

edit: partial translation of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abfallsauganlage by courtesy of DeepL:

Waste suction plant in Bonn-Tannenbusch

This plant has been shut down since 1 January 2010. Since the beginning of the 1970s, it has served up to 12,000 inhabitants of the Bonn-(Neu-)Tannenbusch district for waste disposal. It was the largest waste suction plant in the world. It comprised a suction pipe network of about 12 kilometers in length and 200 insertion shafts (100 permanently installed in the multi-story apartment buildings and high-rise buildings, 100 outdoors) [12].

In 1991, the German Packaging Ordinance came into force. After the introduction of the yellow garbage cans and the yellow garbage bags for packaging waste, the Tannenbuscher plant was only meant to collect the so-called residual waste.

During the approx. 40 years of its operation, approx. 50.000 tons of household waste were disposed of with this waste suction plant. With a transport speed of approx. 90 km/h garbage bags or loose waste was transported to a collection point in the industrial park "Hohe Straße". From there, the transport route continued by container and truck to the waste incineration plant in Bonn-Endenich.

Misuse and damage have made this form of waste disposal increasingly expensive and not very environmentally friendly. Even hazardous waste and slaughterhouse waste from private households reached the plant and had to be salvaged at great expense. In addition, heavy objects that were also thrown in by mistake damaged the underground pipelines and tore holes in their walls.

In most cases, these damages could not be detected and repaired in time, so that large amounts of soil were sucked in at various points by the operation of the suction blower. The resulting cavities under the earth's surface sometimes caused damage to overlying roadways and other surfaces. The danger of a break-in, which could cause damage to buildings or even people, caused the responsible authorities to stop the operation of the Tannenbuscher waste suction plant.

In March 2007, the city council of the Federal City of Bonn decided to shut down the waste suction plant from autumn 2009. Several filling shafts were closed ahead of schedule, the last of them at the turn of the year 2009/2010. A dismantling of the plant is planned. [13] The dismantling of the plant cost about 1.5 million Euros, [14] for the entire dismantling of the plant, i.e. the filling of the pipelines and the demolition of the 150 filling stations, the head of the environment department had given an estimate of 4 million Euros in advance. [15]
Yeah, it's called pinning. When you use yarn or npm, they generate a lock file that pins the exact state of your downloaded set of node modules, so you can't accidentally download a different set of artifacts that might be poisoned.

As for "but what if they hide it?" that's just a problem with compilers. A very "Reflections on Trusting Trust" sort of thing. I'm usually a few versions behind, so if anything like that were to exist it would have been caught by someone else.
Reading this, it is easy to get into the weeds: how to keep teachers from being biased; culture wars on which way that bias should swing, etc.

Viewing it from the the frame of regenerative education though, this particular problem is lessened. In this frame, children are not taught from a curriculum that the adults choose. There are no standards, or grading. Instead each child chooses something meaningful to make a contribution. Children are given a framework in which they can understand whatever it is they set out to do. They learn how to problem solve, critically think, and reflect, as they go about trying to make meaningful, real-world contributions that have real consequences. Teachers are there as resources. The feedback doesn't come from teachers, but rather, when they are trying to accomplish something that has real world consequences. You're not graded by an external source against a standard, but instead, you evaluate whether the outcome was really what you set out to be. It folds within it "grit" and "growth mindset", but not for its own sake.

In such a setup, it is no longer about gender bias (conscious or unconscious), or even equal opportunities.

Furthermore, achievement is reframed from effort rewarded in external praise and material gains from society and inverted to what you meaningfully add to the community and society. What develops is intrinsic motivation and purposeful action. There isn't an exhortation to "apply yourself", or the "when you grow up and have to pay your rent and etc". The childhood dreams, aspirations, and imagination is redirected towards something meaningful, instead of being crushed by the grind of adult living. Your ambitions are not about getting your just rewards for working hard, or winning the lottery, or exploiting opportunities.

It doesn't have to be big things. There are ways to develop this from when a child is a toddler, starting with small contributions. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/09/6169288...
Have any of these people talked with a lawyer rather than blindly paying? Breach of contract, dangerous living conditions, etc. come to mind.
Did a quick search, and this link [1] from what appears to be a reputable source says most household wells are pulling up water that is less than 10 years old.

Granted that probably varies a lot by region.

I've heard of a fair number of people that have their wells go bad and need to drill deeper to get clean water.

Found this page [2] that lists registered well depths here in Iowa. Seems that somewhere in the 300-400ft range is common. Deeper for municipal wells.

[1] https://agwt.org/content/how-old-your-well-water

[2] https://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/igs/geosam/depth_map
No, the US tax code is not that hard to follow at the macro level. The complexity of the tax code comes from the thousands of potential write offs and exceptions that favor certain industries as a result of lobbying.
I thought in nursing the gender gap is closing because it's one of the few careers that actually pays off these days. At regional colleges the nursing major is usually the one with the highest salary, you can check that on the Department of Education's website. High school leavers seem to be directed towards it, especially first-generation students.
I think he means the password complexity policy is only measuring length, and doesn’t distinguish between upper and lower case. Not that the case doesn’t matter in the password. Just in the policy.
I see it as a different flavour of English. Every single flavour of English has its own distinction and incompatibility with the others, that's what defines it as its own thing.

A US or UK English speaker will face issues when talking with a Indian English speaker, or an Australian English speaker.

In practice we already use EU English, both in official documents and communications, and in casual exchanges. We just don't recognize it officially.

The document you share is using UK English as the standard to follow, which explain why there are some differences.

> This leads to less understanding, rather than more.

That leads to a common language WITHIN the EU, which is what we don't have currently. I mean, again, we do have European English, we just don't recognize it, and it isn't as spread as it could be. The differences with other forms of English are small enough to increase the general communication between EU citizens and other English speakers in the world, but as you said also comes with a few differences that can cause misunderstanding. I work in international environments with people from all over the world, we already face those issues and they aren't a big deal.
I think it'd depend how convincing you were on exclusives. While the biggest movies aren't being made by streaming companies I think there'll always be a market for being able to see the biggest movies earliest. Keeping everything in today's timeline, Disney+ would probably be the biggest reason to think you wouldn't succeed - because now a bunch of the biggest movies are being made by a streaming company.
> There is always talk of increasing the number of women in STEM fields, but never any talk of increasing the number of men in the arts

On this particular point, I think it's because STEM-like fields are quite economically useful compared to the arts. On average, it would probably "hurt" men (in financial/power terms) to encourage more of them to go into the arts.
Glad to see more work in this space.

You might spend a little more saying what makes your approach unique:

"Use text based formats that are bloated and slow, or use binary formats that humans can't read. Wouldn't it be nice to have the benefits of both, and none of the drawbacks?"

NeXT/Apple property lists have had that feature for decades now, with multiple text and binary serialization formats.[1]

Infra [2] also makes very similar claims "Existing metaformats fit neatly into two categories. They are either textual for human-readability (such as XML and JSON) or binary for compact serialization (such as Thrift and Protocol Buffers). Infra can play the role of either, imbuing each with the desirable properties of the other."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_list

[2] http://www.christopherkhall.com/research.html
If the precedent is that you have a green light if and only if the government is committing a crime, that seems reasonable to me. Otherwise we're giving government agencies a green light to keep committing crimes.
Channeling some heinlein here:

If we were all galapagos iguanas, well, then one of us iguanas will find a way to swim or otherwise get to a larger landmass. Or find a way to live in the ocean.

Then, one of us would find a way to breed faster. After all, there is infinite seaweed and algae available to me.

Eventually then, this adapted iguana will be so widespread, even if it remains docile and somehow does not evolve some territorial behaviour for mating purposes (unlikely), that, docile and all, it eats all the seaweed.

Some seaweed will likely mutate into something that is harder to eat for the iguana, or poisons them and iguanas learn not to eat that (why? Well, there are a ton of iguanas - whatever iguana just mutates their genes into recognizing the poisonous one by taste or smell and won't eat it, will survive where the ones without the mutation will start dying off in droves).

And now we have our war back.

It's just between iguanas and the seaweed, which is now in an arms race: The iguanas adapt to deal with the poison, the seaweed adapts to come up with new poisons or otherwise make themselves harder to eat. The rules have changed: There are so many iguanas, that if you are easy to eat by an iguana, you, as a seaweed, are just not going to survive, because there are so many.

Or, if the seaweed does not manage to be an equal aggressor in this fight, then something else happens: First massive, MASSIVE die-outs of iguanas due to starvation, and then eventually, aggressive behaviour between iguanas: If I manage to find a stretch of beach with a bunch of seaweed, and I just had some kids? Well, I can just stay docile. Or, I adapt to be aggressive, I chase off other (docile) iguanas hungry and on the lookout for seaweed, and thus ensure that my children survive whilst theirs die of starvation.

War is inevitable, unless the system grows into 'acceptance', a self-balanced status quo where opportunities to expand exist but for whatever reason a part of the ecosystem just decides not to do this. For example, what if the iguana's somehow have a break built in and do not adapt. It's that or find a lifeform that requires literally zero resources.

The problem is, given that this is an utopic view where life is great and nothing needs to change and there are no external pressures to adapt, why would you invent anything? Until some external force shows up and changes things, life will continue stable forever, with iguanas doing iguana things and seaweed doing seaweed things.

Heinlein's principle is that this can only hold if you are literally the only life in the entire universe (or all life is like this), because if not, one day one of the ecosystems that decided to 'war' and grow will obliterate you. They don't play by the same rules.
The pedophile hysteria in the US makes teaching elementary school an actively hazardous career choice for men.
They might have been interested in having the MAC addresses to check some suspects alibi, or even to find some links between groups of persons, not specifically PII.

Grenoble is under scrutiny for some time now, it has a bad reputation regarding drug trafficking and the government uses it to show its "strength" with police operations covered by the media. This might be linked.
Fibers, Oh My
And then monthly or yearly fee for GDPR review/handling too. Don't forget handing over GDPR form to your customer together with latte.
Europe becomes tough place to make any activity, not even talking about business.
There is not reason to think that inmigrant population is over-represented in the hospitals. Would be more logical to expect the opposite, in fact, as some immigrants could be more reluctant to go to the hospitals.
Add a link or something to not completely turn away mobile browsers. I can't play now, but would love to see what it's like with screenshots or something...
Justice Antonin Scalia on the interpretation of legal texts (2012)
What medication did you receive when you get infected with the corona?
I am hearing varieties of medicine and reason to take that, but none of the doctors are sure about it.

So please share your experience. This will help me as well as everyone with what medication different doctors are giving.
And HN said "Yup, he basically deserved it."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2802917
While there is a certain amount of personal responsibility in the field, often component-wise construction limits the visibility of the systems ethics as a whole, and the higher level unethical strategy is not decided by an implementer
Would readable large integers be possible?
E.gPython. gathered support for numbers like 1_000_000_000
Wrapped NFTs: The next phase in crypto-collectibles
Yes, it's true that URLs are a nightmare, but we don't have anything better (yet). Once we do, I'll happily release v2 of the spec. For now, it follows the RFC.
Yes, the draft was mentioned in the article as well. However the version 1.0 paper was dated 30th September 1980, although it wasn’t in the ACM until the following year.
Is there a country with balanced gender ratios in STEM employment? I wasn’t aware of such
Which would also mean that, by extension, a hippocratic oath only move the legal responsibility from the groups that make the decisions to the doctor, in a practical sense, right? Or am I missing something in the whole micro management style of thinking that is the modern medical system?
> keeps it from devolving down the reddit path

That ship sailed a looooong time ago
There's lots of good things mentioned so far. I'd like to add something to the effect of -

"I shall not attempt to manipulate user behaviour in order to increase revenue or metrics. The usage of my product shall be driven entirely by the user's conscious and deliberate desire to engage with it."

Yeah, I know — it's vague and completely unrealistic. Still... a man can dream.
> Keeping employees/contractors in fear that they will never stop chasing you is a good way to stop people from doing this.

This is contradicting to the idea of government existing for people and serving people.

If government uses fear to reduce accountability, it needs to be changed.
Clone that ssd to a bigger one and then resize the partition.
> Can I create a feature that breaches user's privacy? What if I don't build the feature but just write documentation for it?

More pertinently, most of the time: What if I think that feature would be a net-positive for everyone? There obviously cases where a product literally couldn't exist without collecting user data, and so long as they're up-front about it, I'm fine with that. It's sneaky data collection that's the problem.
There are actually two papers; Ethernet 1.0 and 2.0, but the ones linked above were for the <256 draft implementation.
> It is approximately five times more thermally efficient than glass, cutting energy costs.

Seems even more useful than its weight. There is a lot of energy loss from the windows of buildings. Would be a huge gain if that can be brought down significantly.
Seeing as the poster seemed to work in the tourism industry, they may be chafing a bit due to present circumstances.
> best predictor of success is if your teacher believes you're capable.

It's important to look at the mechanism here. I'd guess it's mediated by pushing those students harder. Which is a double-edged sword; there is a reason we don't just push everyone harder.
If you're a lay person you have the option to hire someone. Let's not forget, we're talking about businesses here (bars), not individuals.
Probably MAC addresses and DNS queries.
It can't save the environment from cultures that will bulldoze over incapacitated and non-competing westerners who buy this hippie nonsense.

Is there any good data on the effects of taking psychedelics on aggression / ambition / aggreableness / conscientiousness? The "becoming one with Nature" theme seems to be pretty common among enthusiasts, although I personally didn't notice a lasting effect after eating shrooms. I'm curious if there's a cause-effect relationship or it's just bias in people who gravitate to this.
Why do you find it disappointing that women choose certain careers while men choose others when they have fully free choice on the matter?

We know that by nature, men and women MUST have different interests on average, otherwise they wouldn't be interested in each other and our species would die :).

Can't we just accept that we make different choices sometimes and try as best as we can to make things progress to the best of our capabilities, regardless of how much each gender contributes to each human endeavour?
The difference being that you maintain your own accounting records, and any discrepancy is a result of your own failings, whereas WiFi logs can be expected in practice to contain entirely fictitious information for the majority of ordinary users due to no fault of the cafe. Which makes them totally useless and any requirement to keep them a wasteful burden and a trap for the unwary with no countervailing benefit.
iOS 14 adds actually random MAC addresses: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211227
A Message to Firefox Core Developers
One possible explanation mentioned in the article is that "they're using the dead bodies of their prey to mask themselves in the scent of their local prey species". Seems a lot more likely than a tactic to strike fear into the hearts of their enemies...
Logic itself is a formalism.

Subject to all the constraints of formal language theory/linguistics.

It fails to address the symbol-grounding problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_grounding_problem
It sounds like they’re comparing it to single pane glass, which is not what most windows are made of these days when thermal efficiency is a concern.
> I see it as a different flavour of English.

I think you're being very generous there in painting it as some kind of naturally occurring dialect of a culture.

> The document you share is using UK English as the standard to follow

Incorrect. It refers to and compares against Irish English and US English as well, as people would in fact normally understand it. It's not academic or prescriptive.

> In practice we already use EU English, both in official documents and communications, and in casual exchanges.

You can't convince me people are using contorted jargon like 'financial envelope' in casual exchanges with anyone.

These are the problems in practice:

> the European institutions also need to communicate with the outside world and our documents need to be translated – both
tasks that are not facilitated by the use of terminology that is unknown to native speakers and either does not appear in
dictionaries or is shown in them with a different meaning

It's not just a case of 'not recognising it officially' - nobody understands it and dictionaries (of any dialect) don't help.

What is the point of a dialect that only people writing reports, not reading them (the actual people they're governing), understands?
The Famous Easter Island Heads Have Hidden Bodies
IPv6 has been around for ages, but it has started picking up over the past couple of years.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
minecraft was inspired by infiniminer

https://notch.tumblr.com/post/227922045/the-origins-of-minec...
There should be some culminative chance distribution that starts at 1 virus ye.
The Pentagon's New Map (Thomas P.M. Barnett) offers interesting insights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon's_New_Map
This will probably be missed but unplug your internet and put your phone in another room. I have offline docs and stackoverflow questions for everything that I need to build and plenty of examples from other projects already on my machine.

All you need to do is remove distractions and temptations and make the thing you want to do but are easily pulled away from the most interesting thing to do within your immediate reach.
Here's my personal anecdote: I took acid once (200ug sublingual), and realized that I need to clean my apartment and brush my teeth more often.

I'm not a very spiritual person, and I don't have a strong desire to 'connect with the thread of the universe'. But I'm very curious and happy to try things, if I can convince myself they're reasonably safe.

That was a few weeks ago, and I'm happy to report that my floor is noticeably cleaner and my teeth cared for =)

I could try to claim other less measurable and subjective benefits, but that wouldn't be very honest with myself after only a couple weeks, and I doubt you'd believe me.
That's very interesting. So the LSD psychosis shows you how intense it can be and makes normal psychosis feel that much milder?
Worked odd jobs and travelled until I was 25. After a year trying stand up comedy I wanted to develop skills that were more 'tangible' and started looking into tech.

I originally intended to learn how to make Android apps but ended up going to a full stack web bootcamp and the rest is history.
I’ve thought about it as well.

I think for communities like HN, the real content actually is the comments-- or rephrased, HN uniquely stands out amongst other news aggregators because of its community. You could say the community sentiment should be reflected through the content submitted, but I just don’t believe that’s true.

However, I don’t think everything on earth needs comments. I honestly never understood the point of blog posts having comments, but I’ve never run a successful blog that anyone looks at either so maybe I don’t get it.
>I would absolutely pay current cinema prices, plus food + drink for an afternoon of comfort and films that I otherwise wouldn't see, in the atmosphere they were meant for. I guess it brings it closer to theatre in that sense as you tend to have a better idea of what you're seeing, whether people like it, whether you already like it and whether it's going to be worth your time/money.

All of the theaters in CA/WA that I've been too in the last 5-10 years fit your description with the exception of the last two points (I avoid theaters without #4). There's nothing like a Pixar movie in theaters with a pitcher of Imperial Stout and surf-and-turf dinner.
Really smooth gameplay, nice art style, satisfying sound effects -- Nice work!