skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Water contamination is one of the main day-to-day sources of health hazards that people face today, the others being air and food contamination. These health hazards exist in varying levels all over the world, some places more than others, in some cases less, much thanks to environmentalist organizations that have put pressure on governments to regulate and install the required sewage cleaning etc.

While a spontaneous and completely sane reaction to this is to save oneself by privately installing filters, buying organic etc. these are problems that ultimately and obviously require collective solutions, i.e. by government and through treaties between governments.

But if the last year has taught us anything, it is that any government action is likely to be met with equal and opposite reaction (in the west), a reaction that seems to stem in large part and primarily from a section of society that lives by the adage "Après moi, le déluge", and secondarily from the section of the populace that has been spoon-fed conspiracy theories (by the former?) about the government and its nefarious nature.

I suspect there are readers here that might disagree with the above, and it's not my intention to start a flame war. Instead I'd be interested to hear if there are any rational reasons why the government should not be given adequate means to regulate and follow up that regulation with the required inspections to make sure toxins are not released into the general environment that forms the basis of our, as well as other biological, present and future, life.
Sounds like another instance of "complete imbecile retards don't understand the difference between slavery and contract work... or don't care".

The employment laws required businesses to do way too much for their employees for no benefit to them. So, they found ways to employ people with short term contracts. That works better if you can contract out to other countries where labor is cheaper.

As someone who started out the career as one of those contractors, I can say that it is definitely not "slavery". I voluntarily worked in such jobs because it paid far more than anything else that did in the local economy, even if I found a job there, that is.
TL;DR: ethnicity is not citizenship

Switzerland has never been homogeneous and the recent immigration to Switzerland is very different from regular immigration elsewhere.

It is an exception in the west, mostly due to low taxation for rich people or political reasons.

for the same reasons in Lichtenstein 33℅ of the population is non-citizen and not surprisingly in Monaco an astonishing 75℅ of the residents are foreign born.

If Italian people go to Switzerland they are counted as immigrants, but the Italian ethnicity is native in Switzerland, same goes for German and French people.

The same thing is not true for Chinese or Korean people in Japan.

Also 1℅ of Japan equals to 15℅ of the Swiss population.
I don’t work for a stock exchange, stocks are not particularly high volume nor particularly that important for the market as many other instruments and asset classes.

Your comment shows you clearly have no idea how modern QDM and ODM markets work if you think that sending 100 bytes over UDP is all there is or even what we do, we don’t even use UDP...
Why Rustlang has a bright future in the cloud
In some fields, Python is embedded as an interpreter into major binary platforms or commercial apps.

So in many of these cases the end user doesn't have a choice to use Python 3 until it's on offer.

And the vendor has usually integrated Python at a binary level into C code; that's why they provide a Python API.

The answer could even be "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"; consider that Python 2 is the default in this OS, which ended official support only at the end of last year. Many enterprises _chose_ this platform for its longevity, along with 3rd party vendors of commercial software.
>Germany (under the euphemism "migration background")

That's very different from the US keeping track of race though. After a generation there's no way for the German government to tell the children from naturalized citizens from other German citizens.
> A release that is only supported for five years is a hobby project.

I believe what you are trying to say is that you chose the wrong tool for the job. It is really condescending to lash out on other projects like that just because they don't share the same needs as you. They owe you nothing. Python is free and open source, just fork the damn language spec and support it yourself.
I agree with you and the sentiment but your tone really discredits the argument. Instead of putting others down it's better to assume good faith, and educate in an elevating way. This way feminism gets a good reputation.
Anyone ever get this to run on i386?

From the outside without the right hardware it looks so daunting. And I don’t think the source to most of the bootstrap utils seem to be long gone.

I’m always amazed how much mind share Mach had and how it’s largely been destroyed and lost. I suspect on modern machines it’d run just fine...
I've been almost permanently WFH since April, with a few weeks back in the office during summer when the incidence rate was lower, then back to WFH when the second wave hit.

I enjoy not having to commute, but I absolutely miss the banter across the desks and lunch conversations.

I would absolutely like to keep 2-3 weekly WFH days in the future, which would also give me more flexibility in where I choose to live, I really want to move farther from the city and closer to nature. A longer commute would be acceptable if I didn't have to do it every day.
One effect this paper doesn't talk about is how remote work can snowball. For many people the main reason to go into the office is to meet other people on your team. The more they choose to work from home, the less their team members are incentivized to leave home. I've seen this cycle lead to everyone working from home all the time.

Organizations can try to set policies to avoid this, e.g. require everyone to be in the office Tuesday through Thursday. But then you start to wonder why you're paying for office space that you only use 3 days a week. You can try to save the money with hot-desking etc but that has its own effects.
I would think the fact high performers work better remote though is what will be a competitive advantage for a 100% remote company at some point in the future.

I am way more productive remote and it isn't even close. While I do like the social aspect of the office, it is such overkill.

To me post-COVID, the whole country is open for business. I want to join a company that values high productive remote workers and sees the massive opportunity this is going to create.
I agree that $250k ARR is not an revenue level to build a team around.
But $250k ARR in 10 months, makes it very likely that it will be far over $500k in another year.

This means that the next 12 months one of the priorities will be building a stable team to support the growing customer base.
Depending on the vision and the pace they widh to grow, this can be focussed on more sales, more engineering, more support, etc.
> I don't know why dd remains the standard for so many tutorials

You can also do something like

dd if=file.iso of=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Samsung_SSD_840_EVO_120GB

Where the last part is basically the brand and name of your USB stick, not much guess work required. Though I've never seen that in any tutorials.
> Islam had this too: Your fellow muslim is your "brother".

But then comes along people who vie for political power. In the process, they start to again divide people along certain differences, one which may be racial, sometimes it is lineage. And so you see the process of unification being reversed.
Nobody has said it should be except for you. As I said it will occur but you should strive to spread information and learning as much as is reasonable.
The four-amp draw in your calculations provides the user a 12-mile operating radius each day. Somewhat to my original point: an electrobike is a much lower load than an electrocar!

This might be acceptable on average; theory in practice are the same in theory, but in practice they differ. A real-world user will require the ability to fully charge his electrocar on occasion, which means the fullbore 240V connection and a 100A breaker (potentially a 50A breaker depending on vehicle).

Assuming that every user follows average patterns will break the system.

Taking this idea out further, it speaks to infrastructure upgrades that will be necessary in order to power all of these electrocars. Estimates vary by region, power generation from automobiles as a fraction of total is somewhere between 10% and 30%, which exceeds both the spare capacity of the electric grid in aggregate, as well as often exceeding local transmission capabilities.

All-in-all, the costs of electrocar adoption are nonlinear: the first few percent of the population who adopt don't have to deal with the structural problems: a 100-unit condominium building can add two or three 240V chargers, the local grid can handle a handful of vehicles. At scale, however, major infrastructure upgrades will be required.
Ironic in a thread about censorship and silencing people.
>I wish workers rights are brought up more often during presidential and mid term elections.

How does it help any corporation to do that?

If it doesn't, why would think-tanks pay for that to be discussed in major media?

If they don't, why would it ever be brought up in any political discussion?
If anyone reading this lives in Atlanta and actually wants to work on solving some of these problems reach out. I could really use the help. Email my HN username at gmail.

The long game is a modified form of pod hotels.
Did you read the article? The census considers anyone with Japanese citizenship to be "Japanese". Therefore it's useless as a measure of ethnic diversity.
"Chemical" is not used as a scare word here, "Forever" is
What an unhelpful comment. The phrasing is defined in the article

>These compounds may take hundreds, or even thousands, of years to break down in the environment. They can also persist in the human body, potentially causing health problems.

It is clear that this means "Teflon" and similar molecules that aren't processed biologically. "Forever chemicals" here is excellent phrasing. They in fact last an indefinite amount of time in the ecosystem, and they are "chemicals" in that they are not naturally occurring.

For you to insist this is fearmongering is disingenuous and you should feel ashamed. This isn't at all the same as calling water "dihydrogen monoxide" and hyping up fear of "chemicals". There is in fact an active industry that promotes the production of these compounds for reasons of profit, and the externalities thereof are not at all taken into account by the mainstream understanding.
The census figure quoted in these wiki articles is exactly the statistic the author is refuting in the start of this article.
> It falls apart under any kind of load, both because of unoptimized DB queries, and because of PHP.

This is simply not true - modern PHP is very fast.
When you know your collegues and their circumstances better it is easier to create a work environment with less friction. In the worst case you see your collegues as some abstract force that constantly makes your day worse, while you yourself wouldn't even go an extra milimeter to make things clear, easy to parse or simply less pain in the ass for the next person.

Knowing the people you work with can make these relationships less abstract and more emphatic.

In the worst case interpersonal communication in the workplace is all about who tends to offload work on whom (e.g. the manager who records a 15 min voice message where precisely one minute matter to each of the receipients offloaded the effort of sorting and parsing to the recipients. This manager wasted then 14 minutes times the number of receipients time, just out of pure lazyness).

Remote communications makes this worse, because every email that leaves open a questions takes time/energy as it goes back and forth.
Using a statistic that represents the country as a whole hides the fact that some parts of Japan are more like 99.99%, while others are more like 80%. The experience you have will depend on where you are.
I learned more about working independently from reading linux manuals and irc chats after high school than in 12 years of school or 5 years of college.
> But if the last year has taught us anything, it is that any government action is likely to be met with equal and opposite reaction (in the west), a reaction that seems to stem in large part and primarily from a section of society that lives by the adage "Après moi, le déluge", and secondarily from the section of the populace that has been spoon-fed conspiracy theories (by the former?) about the government and its nefarious nature.

I think this is perhaps a vast oversimplification, driven by a desire to attribute to nilhilism and idiocy/impressionability what may actually be deeper philosophical differences, held sincerely by intelligent people.

It seems pretty common these days to ascribe people's differing philosophical viewpoints to misinformation, conspiracy theories, foreign influence, or whatever.

It's possible that reasonable, intelligent people, just like you, simply disagree on the best ways to address these problems, and that it's not as simple as that they've been "spoon-fed conspiracy theories".

(Source: I'm one of the people in that camp. Government regulation is one tool in the drawer, but it's not a very good one for causing sweeping societal change, IMO. Tesla, for example, did vastly more for the move to automotive electrification than all of the previous US government attempts up to that point.)
For multiplication you don't even need a very large value of 2. A 5% margin of error is enough to get a different output.
Great advice in this thread, both technology and just life hacks too. My recommendation:

If your horizon is “finish same day”, buy what you like. This is the only horizon acceptable for frequently oaked varieties (like Cabernet Sauvignon), highly alcoholic varieties (like GSM), or bottom shelf supermarket wines.

If your horizon is “finish next day”, this is optimal for complex but light varieties such as Pinot Noir, Chardonnay. No technology needed.

If your horizon is “finish in 3-5 days”, the best bet is to buy unfiltered (and un-fined) wine. Generally the bottle fermentation continues and the flavors change over time. These have a lot more funk. With unscientific certainty, I posit this must be how the ancients enjoyed their wine!

If your horizon is “finish the next weekend”, then start looking at the technologies in this thread.

If your horizon is “finish within the month”, buy 375ml, then see above.

And as a PSA, generally avoid added sulfites. Wine is alive! Embracing its natural state extends the lifespan of drinkability. No technology should be needed.
because blockchain.
>A release that is only supported for five years is a hobby project.

Sure, I'll let my Product Lead know that we're selling toys that only skiddies, not telecos NOCs use.
Please make it work on microcontrollers. And write a book aimed at children to go with it.
I had been to a service, I think at a unitarian universalist church, which was accepting of atheists. As I remember it, it can still be a bit awkward with references to God being common, but you wouldn't be unwelcome on principle.
"Gee, you're using my platform to promote disbanding my platform, I'm totally okay with that, keep going!"

Probably a good idea to remember here, that Facebook is a private company, not a public utility.. The actual problem is that there is no public-utility alternative to Facebook.
If Pascal does the job, why not?
ethnicity is a very important legacy for every ethnic group, acknowledging the existence of the different ethic groups living in a country means being more aware of the specific needs of everyone instead of crushing minorities under the umbrella of homogeneity.

it's the laws that perpetuates systemic racism.

For example in Japan Ainu, Ryukyuans and Yamato are different, have different languages, traditions and sometimes even different alphabets.
Very good list in general, but I would disagree with one point:

> Software architecture probably matters more than anything else

The devil is in the details here, but the more I program, the less I feel that "software architecture", at least as it is often discussed, is actually not important and often actively harmful.

The architecture driven approach takes the assumption that the "correct" shape of a program should fit into a pre-defined abstraction, like MVP, MVVM (or god forbid atrocities like VIPER) etc which has been delivered to us on a golden tablet, and our job as programers is to figure out how to map our problem onto that structure. In my experience, the better approach is almost always to identify your inputs and desired outputs, and to build up abstractions as needed, on a "just-in-time" basis. The other approach almost always leads to unnecessary complexity, and fighting with abstractions.

The author also mentions SOLID - like architecture patterns, I'm always a bit suspect of true-isms about what makes good software, especially when they come in the form of acronyms. I generally agree that the principals in SOLID are sensible considerations to keep in mind when making software, but for instance is the Liskov Substitution Principal really one of the five most important principals for software design, or is it in there because they needed something starting with "L"?

After 10 years of programming, the biggest takeaway for me has been that the function of a program (correctness, performance) is degrees of magnitude more important than its form. "Code quality" is important to the extent that it helps you get to a better functioning program (which can be quite a bit) but that's where its utility ends. Obsessing over design patterns and chasing acronyms is great if you want to spend most of your time debating with colleages about how the source code should look, but the benefits are just not reality-based most of the time.
Vote for an overall better society with more equality. Don’t vote for populist parties who use minorities as scapegoats.

Everything else follows as a natural effect of that.

Immigration is hard, but politicians would like to see it all solved in their term period.
Here in France there is no such thing as "race" or "color" or "ethnicity" from the State's point of view. The census doesn't ask anything related to race / color / ethnicity. As far as the state is concerned, you're either a French citizen or a foreigner.

However, during 2020, there were a few cases of alleged [0] police brutality towards "minorities". This has opened a wider debate over the place of minorities in the French society which, of courses, started to talk about racism. There was a clear attempt by some parties to bring up arguments which seemed directly taken from US events, in particular related to the George Floyd case. Of course, those arguments were met with the "France doesn't see race, so there can't be racism" argument.

Now I haven't followed those debates particularly closely, but from my (admittedly superficial) point of view, it's pretty hard to say that something is happening to a particular class of people because of who they are without acknowledging that that is, indeed, a class. In practical terms, how can you acknowledge that "black people are discriminated against if there are no black people"?

My point is that it's way more difficult to talk about things you can't measure. This slides into "I feel that", which doesn't really allow to know whether progress is being made.

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[0] I say "alleged" because I haven't followed closely those cases so I don't know what the investigations concluded.
Normally that is a valid point, but for Japan there is an enormous overlap.
So it turns out that the BTC ASICs are consuming energy which would otherwise be wasted.
Maybe it's just me but I tend to lose interest in sports. That presents a dilemma. Either you have to attend something you are not interested in, or you stop hanging out with the people.
It was great and well ahead of it's time. The wonky part was the db storage.
For Norway, 2020, I think about 25% of the population where either foreign born or has at least one parent foreign born [1]

https://www.ssb.no/statbank/sq/10046114
> So my mental model of commands in vi is that "nC" is the same as executing "C" n times.

Your mental model would be correct for motions (2j, 3w, 4}, 5][, etc.) but J is not a motion. From :help J:

> Join [count] lines, with a minimum of two lines.
If they were truly honest about that they would work with the groups already doing it. Instead, it's mentioned by them whenever the criticism of their walled garden becomes too intense, and then promptly ignored again.
This seems to be an example of a more general antipattern in software development, where a relatively large entity is broken down into multiple smaller entities for dogmatic reasons. The usual justification given is how much simpler each individual entity now is, glossing over the extra complexity introduced by integrating all of those separate entities.

Microservice architectures seem to be a recurring example of this phenomenon. Separating medium to long functions into shorter ones based on arbitrary metrics like line count or nesting depth is another.
You can separate the socialising and the educational parts of the university experience.

For a large majority of courses I simply did not attend to lectures, it's a lot faster to learn on your own. Yet, I could have gone to the social nights that the CS chapter held every week and mingled if I wanted to.

But yes, the lack of separation of studying and private living in a one room apartment sucked during Covid. Of course, in a regular school year I could just take the subway to my uni or uni library to work there.

The bad parts of the remote experience will go away.
I think forcibly assimilating minorities and China are a hard sell to mention together in a sentence without also mentioning Uighurs and Tibetans
Despite Biden traditionally being a corporatocratic right-of-center Dem, it is possible that this progressive wave in opposition to Trump is so powerful that Biden will placate it in order to save face. We might witness "meme magic" in the making, in other words.

I don't rely on Biden to decide, of his own volition, on the right solution to anything, but the anti-Trump energy is so strong right now that perhaps he will be far more progressive than we would soberly expect. Let us hope for the best.
Yep, repo and swaps are huge, our euro repo market alone is in around quarter of trillion a day..

People don’t understand what happens when some things go down, and how it would affect them.

Futures are critical to you being able to buy milk eggs and bread at the store day after day and not having the price fluctuating on you by 100’s of % or worse those items simply being unavailable because the price either spiked too high or completely crashed so the supply is nonexistent.

Same goes for many other commodities. A cock up in the futures market can and will send ripples through the entire commodities market which will have a direct impact on the world’s supply chain.
>Belgium (because the Walloon/Fleming ethnic divide is so central to its politics)

No we don't? Those divisions are entirely decided by the place where you live and for a few things in Brussels your language proficiency/the language you choose.

For the rest only (original) nationality and place of birth (and those of your parents) are taken into account for statistics.
Genetics is one thing, but Japan definitely did allow foreign culture into their mix. Just look at the movie "The Last Samurai" to see what I mean. I wonder if it's possible to put out a number for that.

As for my Country, as Europeans we are heavily influenced by Americans, who we completely seem to accept as our cultural leaders. How do the Japanese feel about them though?