skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true, that "Mother Teresa" is a generic term for the epitome of saintly altruism, but the truth of the matter is that she was a fraudulent self promotor who glorified the suffering of others, claimed poverty and disease were gifts from God that build character, and who Christopher Hitchens described as "a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud," and called "The Ghoul of Calcutta".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa

>In 2013, in a comprehensive review covering 96% of the literature on Mother Teresa, a group of Université de Montréal academics reinforced the foregoing criticism, detailing, among other issues, the missionary's practice of "caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it, ... her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce". Questioning the Vatican's motivations for ignoring the mass of criticism, the study concluded that Mother Teresa's "hallowed image – which does not stand up to analysis of the facts – was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media relations campaign" engineered by the Catholic convert and anti-abortion BBC journalist Malcolm Muggeridge. [...]

>She was sometimes accused by Hindus in her adopted country of trying to convert the poor to Catholicism by "stealth". Christopher Hitchens described Mother Teresa's organisation as a cult that promoted suffering and did not help those in need. He said that Mother Teresa's own words on poverty proved that her intention was not to help people, while he quoted her words at a 1981 press conference in which she was asked: "Do you teach the poor to endure their lot?" She replied: "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people."

Christopher Hitchens - Mother Teresa: Hell's Angel [1994]

In 1994, three years before her death, journalist Christopher Hitchens made this documentary asking if Mother Teresa's reputation was deserved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76_qL6fiyDw&ab_channel=CaNAN...

Christopher Hitchens explains why he didn't like Mother Teresa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckZo3ks1ro&ab_channel=moema...

Christopher Hitchens on Mother Teresa (2006)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZiKAeJ9mAU&ab_channel=Stipo...

Penn And Teller "Bullshit" episode: Christopher Hitchens on Mother Teresa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nCaxHN-cY&ab_channel=Chris...
What's the generate_204 thing? Low effort web searching revealed something about a default path on google services for clients to check network status. Is it more nefarious than that?

Also, please tell me the ":wq" was unintentional.
The guy who did it is a lawyer whose case hadn’t even come before this judge yet.
I’m confused by the connotations of “vaporware” and “real” in your comment, and the implication of the P/E values you mention (besides Tesla).
It's universal... until evolutionary pressure kicks in.
That's not really the issue though, you have two devices that you have to plug-in, the midi keyboard and now the adapter which means you have to use a splitter or usb hub. In my experience it's not usually very seamless and can sometimes cause issues with detection of the midi keyboard properly.

EDIT: I have no idea where you're getting that figure but I just looked at three different pairs of Bluetooth headphones that I have in my house, Soundpeats, TOZO, and an LG. None of them have 3.5 mm jacks on them.
implying gun-control would have prevented this crime?

maybe. the article describes the crime in a way that suggests stabbing would have worked as well, and the criminal was angry/motivated enough to kill by any means.
Anecdotally my airpods never automatically switch, unless my partner decides to call her mom at 6AM
> they'd wasted $1 million on a "high availability" devops setup that was overbuilt for what they needed

not sure, but with 1$ million on budget, you can run a pretty pretty big gke cluster.
btw. we run on e2-standard-2 and pay ~500 per month (would be a little bit more without commited usage). 6 nodes + 2 managed cloud sql databases+several load balancers.

really no idea how one can pay a million even in a year. that would not be a small startup...

you can probably have like 9x e2-standard-32 (32vcpu+128gb) + postgres ha 16vcpu/256gb mem/500gb ssd for like 10,867.33 per month without traffic (which might be another 5000) so with traffic you would only pay 190407.96 per year?!

Edit: even without gke, k3s is way simplier than most "deployment scripts" or whatever. it's always a matter if you want to have ops people or if gke's self managing is enough.

Edit2: so many lols at the blog post. I mean who the fuck spends 7000 at a colo for 40.0000 users. my macbook could probably serve that. also "and then script those older Virtual Machines with some mix of Ansible and Terraform (assuming you want to be in the cloud). " is a fucking terrible advice, been there, done that and it soon is a clusterfuck of stuff cobbeled together.
Bundler Wars: Writing my first React library
In a real surround sound setup you can turn your head and look at the speakers when they make an unexpected noise. It would be cool if these headphones did that too
For those who want different cheap FPGA board options, this page is a good option. Some iCE series boards included.

https://joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards
My recent Amazon purchases have had an extra day of delivery time in the estimate - three days instead of the typical two. Yet despite the delivery estimate adding a day to delivery time all arrived at the normal time - a day ahead of schedule. That's not a bad experience.
My thoughts exactly. All our workstations and small-ish clusters run CentOS (we don’t maintain ourselves the large clusters so these are not our problem). It’s going to be a huge pain.
It's absolutely a huge part of the problem. Mathematical notation is horrible, it's imprecise, it's inconsistent - it's a hold over from a legacy time.

But anytime it's brought up, mathematicians get upset. The issue will never be addressed, but it's a disaster.
It there a good option nowadays?

FOX is really fast and looks OK, but I don't think it's very actively developed, and binding to C++ seems like a pain. And I'm not sure it supports CJK input methods.

I looked at EFL out of desperation, but that's pure style over substance and the complete opposite of what I'd want.
Kleppmann, et al.'s paper on OpSets [1], a specification for building CRDTs with support for an atomic tree move operation, was the best one for me.

Automerge [2] implements a variant of this.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04263

[2] https://github.com/automerge/automerge
> Yes most consumer devices run the same 3 browsers all of which run Javascript just fine. I get you don't like it, but that doesn't mean its an accessibility problem.

Assuming you have a new enough device. My 300€ android from 2017 is essentially unusable as it can't run JS well enough any longer.
South-East Asians have 'dry' earwax, as determined by the ABCC11 gene. This is the same gene that makes their sweat have no odour. Just because Vietnamese people go around with sweaty shirts, doesn't necessarily mean you should... And just because they get their ears cleaned, doesn't mean you should.

The Wikipedia article for ear picks implies that it is necessary because of the dry earwax type. The source says:

> Dry wax, most common in Orientals and Native Americans, is gray and dry. It is flaky and may form a thin mass that lies in the ear canal.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCC11

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_pick
We’ve been in private beta since February offering remote Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and Breathwork and are now opening up nation wide.

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We are currently developing protocols for other medicines as well.

Our goal is to increase access to these life restoring therapies and changing the culture around mental health.
I'm confused about:

> The JSON must contain only pure information without any concern about design or markup. All the design and markup required to render the page must be inside the rendering script.

The source code has markup in the form of Markdown, e.g. ## or * text
> What can you do today that you couldn't do in Windows for Workgroups?

1990 was two years too early for Windows for Workgroups and 11 years too early for lazarus. Nevertheless:

- Being able to choose between dozens of memory managed and open source programming languages without having to think too much about performance or memory usage

- The ability to comfortably do in memory what previously could not even fit on a hard disk

- Doing anything with (compressed) video in realtime

- Deployment and distribution of software to a global audience of users, using a broad range of device types, screen sizes and processor architectures, all in fractions of a second

- Setting up servers and fully managed platforms, data stores and databases at the touch of a button

- Full text search in a global database containing all documentation for any available software, including millions of Q&A articles, in a fraction of a second

- The ability to use a variety of third-party online services for automated billing, monitoring, mailing, streaming, analytics, testing and machine learning

- ...

You could probably continue this list for a long time and find many more such improvements that have been made in the past 30 years. If you could find just a dozen of such improvements, each giving you just a 20 percent productivity advantage, you would already have a compound 10x improvement.

By the way, I think to make a fair comparison, we should not compare what is mainstream today with what was leading edge in 1990, but with what was mainstream in 1990. The difference between leading edge and mainstream is 10 years or more; so the question "What could you do in 1990" should be "What was typical in 1990".
if you care about accessibility you can absolutely not create sites like this.
I can’t support socialism at all. I figured out how to work and earn money as 9th grade dropout. Everyone can.
Is it embarrassing to admit, op helped me understand the joke with the additional lines?
How do you get updates to your airgapped hardware? That's your attack vector.
Bluetooth connections aren't a solved problems; they're notoriously finicky!

https://xkcd.com/2055/
The rich get richer as the poor get poorer. Case in point.
Oh wow, this is a very isolated take, seemingly based solely off on snippet from TFA. I initially thought the same because I was genuinely surprised women couldn't already register, but a quick internet search of the assailant's name gave me whiplash. If outspoken misogyny isn't your bag, you may want to look into him further before getting behind him.
Hey Bill, that was very comforting! Thank you! Can I drop you an email later/tomorrow?
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
That's just the arm extension. That chair is $3k.
It's all done for appearances and fundraising. Most of the machinations you're seeing lately by Republicans are; there's no sincere attempt to change the election, or belief that it can be changed.
Consider for a second if some highly intelligent tardigrades or resilient small insects from another civilization hitched a ride on a comet in suspended animation, then took a small fragment to earth. It could be as abstract as that, and it would fit a similar description. The fact that most of the readers here expect a human-like creature at our scale with x neurons and physiology like us is pretty naïve. It's sort of like Hollywood OS to actual operating systems.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-he-...
The death of expertise: Why a few generalists will rule the future of work
Regarding lying down to work + body structures that "lack blood supply and are nourished by diffusion", a cautionary anecdote:

[TLDR: Typing for long periods while lying down with hands elevated above heart may cause an injury.]

A few years ago I built a lying down / "zero gravity" workstation. The position of my keyboard was very similar to the Altwork station, I.E. with arms bent at about 90 degrees with a keyboard and trackpad positioned above my body.

After a couple months of using it during full time working hours I developed severe pain in my wrists and forearms. This had never occurred before when using a conventional workstation / position. I soon became unable to type, and nearly any use of my hands resulted in intense pain. Writing code using a keyboard was out of the question.

After much reading during my forced hiatus, I came to a hypothesis: elevating my hands to type while on my back caused a decrease in diffusion of fluids to the non-vascular tissues of my forearms and hands, that is, the tendons and muscle fascia. While in this unlubricated, "dry" state, the small, continual movements of the tissues against each other (the motions of typing) led to the injury. I concluded it was tendonosis. (IANAD, but had no health insurance at the time.)

The injury took six months to fully heal, during which time I self-administered massage, myofascial release therapy, and grip strength training to increase circulation around the various tissues. For much of that time, I could barely work. Truly it was hell.

As for the workstation, I modified it to use a split keyboard (Ergodox EZ) that kept my hands below my heart (basically at my sides). But ultimately I abandoned the whole thing after failing to achieve a reasonable touch typing speed with the Ergodox.

My current workstation is based on an Ikea lounge chair and ottoman. Keyboard and trackpad extend from the side into my lap on a low-mounted, adjustable arm. The monitor is also on an arm, cantilevered out over the ottoman (and my legs) at a comfortable viewing angle and distance. This setup is certainly not as relaxing for the back as the previous zero gravity position, but in approximately three years of use I've had no further injuries from typing.

YMMV.
I could have sworn there was a relatively recent FB post on it, but I wasn't able to locate it.

That said, there's a 2015 interview where he said $60K per year - not sure if that's in CAD or USD.

https://metalinjection.net/shocking-revelations/harsh-realit...
But why is it a problem that rural areas don't have telecom services? If they truly valued those services, they could move to where they are available.

These ISP subsidies are a classic example of government waste. ISPs promise, don't deliver, and are awarded even more cash to burn. There's no reason we should support this waste of our tax dollars.
One of the big questions I'd have is exactly how these tools were leaked. Red team tools are by nature more exposed since they're using them with their clients, presumably on a large scale, and I would hope that there's a very large difference in the number of people who have access to those tools and the number of people who have access to their production infrastructure, code-signing, or software update mechanism.
Or how often do you watch movie with headphones?

One potentially useful feature would be spatial audio on conference call when multiple people talk - you can discern different information sources when they come from different direction. AFAIK that’s how fighter jet helmets work.
I’m so confused. Why are so many people in this thread trying to say this isn’t real, or it couldn’t possibly be that bad, or it’s no big deal companies should just deal with it, or just bring the boxes to the counter, or just rent your own truck and deliver the packages yourself, or whatever other excuse?

Seems like this is just another nail in the coffin of small businesses and another few hundred billion in Amazon’s market cap.
Apple just works until it doesn’t. I have used Apple products for many years but a a perfectly fine 2013 15” MBP dying on me because of bad RAM has made me reconsider. That’s something that should be a cheap and quick replacement
Getting Started with Bagatto
Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for Covid-19
If there exists an investor that cares about building software and services that preserve human dignity, I'd be happy to meet them and find a way to work together.
I run an eCommerce business in Australia, we've already seen a drop since COVID was (basically) eliminated and people started going out again.

That said, I'd be surprised if there is not long term growth in the sector, especially as shipping becomes "solved" by drones etc.
Good idea if that lets you avoid buying a new keyboard. Adds redundant bulk to the bed, though.
And yet they’re already nearly sold out for pre-Xmas delivery...
Whilst a majority in your case (and that of Discord) may prefer dark, I wonder if it’s more complicated that that. I use light mode everywhere. I like some others have mentioned have astigmatism and I find dark mode only tools much harder to use - to the point that if a code editor only supported dark I would probably not use that editor. I wonder if any that prefer dark have the same issue with light mode only applications, and if so for which is your application usable by a greater number of people, even if it’s not their first preference.
It figures that given that you needed to earn money at 9th grade that you would have never become a doctor, lawyer, or any liberal profession that requires multiple years of dedicated studies.

Good for you but that's not how you make an equitable society.
> I've tried to eat out more often, even leaving less or no tips in order to feel more incentivized to not eat at home.

If you live in the US this is a real jerk move. You're talking about how you're getting richer, but then aren't willing to tip the service worker making less than minimum wage?
I saw a man interviewed on TV who was in a very similar situation. He just figured to get out even though there was no real understanding of what had happened to the first tower or knowledge of a threat to the second. The manager gave stay put and calm instructions while we wait for more information, and he just thought to leave via the fire escape stairwell and take the rest of the day off. Amazing.
NPR as usual gets it wrong. She's not a data scientist.

Here's a direct quote from her:

“Hacking is not something I ever thought they would accuse me of because I have never displayed any capability of doing that,” she said. “I’ve never taken any computer courses or anything like that. I do statistics in a software program designed basically to do all that stuff for you by clicking stuff.”

A data scientist is not someone who "clicks stuff."
I wonder what makes people so eager to push back on such a simple request, to make basic functionality available without JavaScript. In GitHub's case, they only recently screwed it up in a major way, so surely it shouldn't be a big deal to add back the functionality?

Is it "frontend programmers" feeling hurt? Or business types who think it hurts their telemetry channels? Do their salaries depend on it? Or perhaps it's just people who just need to disapprove of someone else's preferences?

It's a simple request. Yes, more than 99% of your users use JavaScript, are not blind or deaf, have reasonably fast links, powerful machines, large enough screens, don't mind updating their browser every week (very important! security matters _so much_ when you regularly run arbitrary code), etc.

So I'm in the 1%... why do so many people feel such a strong need to tell me this issue of mine is a non-issue for everybody else?
Why would people agree to an immutable tenet like that? Basic should not be a pact to the death.
iOS 4 murdered my iPod touch too. RIP
Not just Huawei:

> the telecommunications firm worked in 2018 with the facial recognition start-up Megvii

> Megvii, the Beijing-based developer of the Face Plus Plus system and one of the world’s most highly valued facial recognition start-ups

Huawei responds:

> Huawei spokesman Glenn Schloss said the report “is simply a test and it has not seen real-world application. Huawei only supplies general-purpose products for this kind of testing. We do not provide custom algorithms or applications.”

If the US, EU, and other democracies banned companies that support human rights violations, that might outweigh the value of the Chinese domestic market. (I realize that some Western companies might be caught in that.)
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25339510
No worries guys. The left has this covered. Just about any day now I am sure all the Hollywood celebrities, tech execs and progressive politicians will be donating to keep everyone afloat.
California lawmakers try again to make it easier to build housing
You're asking why someone who uses CentOS hasn't gone with Helm charts?

That's like polar opposites of stability and bleeding edge.
The problem with this will be his employees voting habits. This is 'locust politics'. Now that they have destroyed the old host they are in search of a new host to destroy.
UPS does indeed run a third-party-logistics (3PL) business, but I doubt that's able to be cannibalized to act as a buffer tank for their parcel business. (I also suspect that UPS's 3PL business is also booming this year. They reported Supply Chain & Freight as their fastest growing segment in Q3 earnings, growing 16.5% year-on-year, while US domestic grew "only" 13.8% with the note "continued elevated residential demand". SC&F is not solely domestic 3PL, so it's hard to be sure how that sub-segment is doing, but it's probably also under volume pressure.)
EDIT: Some context about myself so as to not misrepresent myself as some sort of expert. I’ve been prepping while working full time for 6 months. I was really quite bad at doing the problems initially and now can pretty much knock out most problems without too much trouble. Planning to start interviewing in a month or two.

IMO comparing against yourself over time would be more productive. I say that cause it would definitely stress me out personally if I knew I was in the 10th percentile or whatever. And then that negative attitude could snowball into stopping practice.

If you do want an objective measure for FAANG I think Facebook recommends being able to complete 2 Medium level LC problems in 35 minutes. But again, it’s real hard to mimic the real interview environment of explaining yourself, being able to ask questions, etc. I did find mock interviews helpful early on to refine my process before just grinding problems.
This is going to go badly for the cops. They hit the first page of both CNN and Fox.
I prefer equality, merit based system. Not "equitable"

Equal opportunity, not equal outcomes
You don't. The consistency is within the same book (or maybe publisher). A book would look ridiculous if every paragraph was using a different number of spaces after punctuation.

But between two books its just personal preference whether you agree with the choice the author/publisher made.
Yes, but this assumes that users have the foresight to over-provision (enough). It becomes an operational pain in reality.

There is also no getting around the variation of the noisy (or slow) neighbor problem slowing down an entire partition. That also becomes an operational pain.