skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Each individual move to exclude dirt or kill germs is impeccable—beyond criticism, lest one be accused of favoring germs—but the endgame is sterile and leaves us vulnerable to worse ailments. Cracking down sternly on everything that is "not appropriate" and "could be offensive" is not taking us to a good place—it's making us meaner and colder, and even in many cases crueler (I'm not talking about you). Online discourse badly needs a way to get off this train. Maybe we need to risk some injury by jumping off before we crash.

Just have to say, I greatly appreciate this response, and it expresses a lot of my personal thoughts in a way I've always struggled to.

As someone with a neuromuscular disease, I make quite a few "cripple" jokes, and while most people get the self-deprecating humor, I occasionally run into people who berate me for being inappropriate, since "other disabled people may find it offensive." Those "occasional" encounters have tripled in frequency in recent years, and it's left me feeling a bit unsettled.

Logically, it shouldn't make me feel unsettled--I mean, people are literally saying, "I respect people like you so much, I don't want to hear ANYONE say mean things about them." But your response puts it beautifully--it's not the individual encounters that make me unsettled, but the over-arching environment those seemingly well-intentioned encounters create.
I think you're right enough.

There are some nuances that supersede this point but I've run out of steam and lost the thread I was following.
Exactly. Outside the US, major gun holders are criminals who get them illegally. Even in the US, most criminals have their guns illegally because they can't get one legally after their first felony.
1. There are userspace blob too.

2. Android did change drivers architecture across version in the past. We are talking something as old as Android 6
>Surely every stakeholder has some degree of responsibility in the proper functioning of any system.

A civilization enforces responsibility through the law.

>I am free to degrade public infrastructure such as roads because it is not my responsibility to build them.

Yes. And either the government should set laws to prevent you from misusing the infrastructure, and/or the people should shun your company for being a bad actor. The former being consistent for infrastructure that is owned and maintained by the tax-funded government.

>I am morally justified in committing crimes since I am not a police officer.

Morality and legality are different things. Neither people nor corporations should be judged by the government through the abstract, subjective morality of individuals, only by agreed upon, written law, and at its loosest which is a court's interpretation of the law.

You as an individual can hold anyone responsible for anything under any criteria, but then you should state you're speaking for yourself as per your own moral code. As a society, we have rules for that.

If you want to make your moral code the law, then that should also be explicitly mentioned as such instead of speaking as if it's the status quo.
People of Land are not a protected class
Pfffffft. It’s probably a personal site with 10 visitors a week. Let’s step back a little here.
The point was to compare interest rates for a given monthly payment, which isn't influenced by inflation.
In fact i would hate to work at a place where you have to do social deduction
what the heck is "digital handwriting"?
Even before that, an obvious loophole that can be fixed (that too with popular support) is blocking foreign investors who never intend to live in a property, and don't even have the legal right to work in this country, from buying it.

There are very few countries in the world that allow just about anyone from anywhere to buy a piece of land within its borders and own it forever.
What is land? Governments sell land rights piece meal. You might own the development rights to the land, but you still have to worry about zoning. And I would be surprised if there is anywhere in the US where you can buy land with exclusive water rights (underground or creeks/rivers). Water rights are almost always shared in some way. Mining (oil or ore) rights are not usually lumped in with development rights either. So if you buy land without a house, what are you buying? Future development rights? All the while you have to worry about squatters...
Google found to be hosting sickening antisemitic reviews of Auschwitz
>Good for you

No, good for them -the kids, I mean.
In the town where I live, a 400k house in 2000 would sell for around 2 million today.
Even this methodology doesn't add up. About one third of American households are in the 50 largest metro areas.

If income-pegged rents increased in that group by 175%, but only 17% nationally, then that would imply that rents outside the largest metros decreased by 60%. That seems highly implausible.

Either this study has to be wrong (or highly misrepresented) or the BLS Consumer Expenditure survey is wrong. Consider that the BLS survey is a huge sample size, with carefully controlled data, developed over decades, I'm trusting it.
Digital Ocean Apps, you get free hosting for a couple static site, you just push to the selected branch.

I use Hugo but they support a bunch of different types.

Digital Ocean is also just super easy to use in general.
Yes, that's why they used the active voice with counterterrorist operation. It's essentially the same debate of enhanced interrogations and the ticking time bomb.

A lot of the time it's mentally ill people like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_City_Seven

They want you to picture Osama in these cases, when usually it's a bunch of buffoons.
Have you considered sometimes people are in a situation where that might not be reasonable?
And loose 30 mins of your life you’ll never get back. It’s just a person site.
Performance maybe a little bit, but IIRC you, as the owner of the bucket, pay for bandwidth out.

Putting it being a CDN protects you (at least a little bit) from the possibility of a huge bandwidth bill at the end of the month if someone realizes they can attack your wallet directly by trying to ddos your site.
Land in BC has higher demand due to favorable weather and topography, relative to land in other areas.
>>> We are living in the golden age of condensed matter physics

Nice read. Deserves a full catalog of all miraculous materials advances since the semiconductor. We are rapidly approaching the era in which phase diagrams are a "solved" problem, like Backgammon or Atari ;)

Metastable–solid phase diagrams derived from polymorphic solidification kinetics

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/9/e2017809118
"She boiled elbow pasta from Kraft, measured an identical amount of white cheddar cheese as was in the Kraft packet, added butter and milk, and then... “Whoa!” was the summation of her first bites."

I've done that too, with cheese powder from Amazon. It does seem incrementally better. If there's a "secret ingredient" to macaroni & cheese, it's just the cheese powder which you can readily buy by the pound, and then use for other things. Like putting it on your popcorn (add onion powder to really round it out).

The nice thing is that you end up with a lot more versatility when your cheese powder isn't confined to a Mac&Cheese container. I also like to use it as part of cheese sauces for broccoli and such. It's not a staple in my kitchen, but I probably manage to go through a pound in about 6-9 months, and it still generally tastes good even at the end.
> To honor the Khan’s wish of secrecy — we are entering deep into the territory of legend here — 2,000 people who attended the Khan’s funeral were slaughtered by his army. The army was then killed by the Khan’s escort. The escort then killed anyone that crossed their path, in order to conceal where Genghis was buried. Finally, when they reached their destination, the remaining survivors committed suicide.

That seems a bit over the top.
We Have the First-Ever Confirmation of Alternating Sleep States in an Octopus
And the major reason for it is that no program as expensive as the F-35 has been done to attempt to develop such a thing. Or rather multiple different drones depending on what thing you actually wanted to do.
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI calculator, $2500 in 2000 has the same purchasing power as $3800 in 2020. I believe that difference would be able to cover increases in property taxes and insurance.
JEP 405: Record Patterns and Array Patterns (Preview)
Have you tried yahoo geocities?
> Do I have that right?

With respect, I don't think that it is a case of that being wrong or right. The article posits that there is a lack of understanding about hydrodynamics in shallow water.

> ... hydrodynamics in shallow water are different. When a boat moves through the water, it pushes the water out of the way — it displaces it. “Where the water needs to be displaced, in a deep ocean it can go under the ship and that’s not a problem,” says Lataire. “But if it needs to go into shallow water, like the Suez, the water simply cannot go under and around.”

> The Suez Canal is basically just a 24m-deep ditch dug in the ground to let the ocean in. When a ship comes by and displaces the water, the water has nowhere to go; it gets squeezed in between the ship’s hull and the floor and the sides of the ditch. A ship in a canal can squat, for example — it can dig its stern into the water. When water gets squeezed between a ship’s hull and a sand floor, it speeds up. As water flow speeds up, its pressure drops, pulling the hull down to fill the vacuum. The effect is more pronounced at the stern, and so the ship settles into a squat: bow up, stern down.

> ... Lataire wrote his dissertation on a similar phenomenon as a ship passes close to a bank: the bank effect. The water speeds up, the pressure drops, the stern pulls into the bank and, particularly in shallow water, the bow gets pushed away. Stern one way, bow the other. A boat that had been steaming is suddenly spinning.

> Most of the research and design on ship hulls goes into efficiency and stability at sea. But at sea is not where the Ever Given got stuck. And ships have gotten big, fast, which means the consequences of shallow-water hydrodynamics are changing by the year.

Anyhow, the article argues gently that big ships are being built with scant regards for hydrodynamics in shallow waters, and it makes a case for some proper research before building more.
I read recently an article that claims the Driver’s Co-op is “fighting Uber’s model” —but, having talked with most TDC’s key players, I believe what’s good for Uber is good for them too.

Fighting Uber’s model means three things: 1) replacing its app and network of contractors, 2) abolishing its third parties selling services to drivers like selling shovels to gold miners, and 3) strengthening state and federal labor laws giving workers wage protections and right to a union.

The Driver’s Coop may do 1, but they have resisted 2 and 3.

At most, I believe they are friendly competition to Uber, not yet the fighter that the labor and cooperative movements need. But/and I think the Driver’s Co-op to do better.
> One of the advantages (against the many disadvantages) of IVF is the available genetic and chromosome testing of a few days old blastocyst.

Could you please expand a bit on that?
The knee jerk response to people who suggested this was a possibility as "conspiracy theorists" was ridiculous, and shows how pernicious to open thinking that particular meme has become.

I don't have a strong opinion on the lab theory, but I have always suspected this was a possibility and continue to be dumbfounded by otherwise smart people who simply refused to consider it.

Edit: Flagged? OK.
No more RedHat for my organization, then.
If we insist on not paying for journalism then what little quality journalism we have left will die. Vote with your wallet if you want a future that isn’t just listicles and manufactured outrage.
You can generally query any object off s3 in a few milliseconds..

I have a system doing 10s-100's of millions of reads a day from s3 with very consistent and fast read times.
Much of the appeal of these conversion tools is that they might finally allow us to drop Latex.

Although HTML/CSS/JS aren't fully viable for print just yet, they're not missing much.
Nobody is forced into being a landlord?
Well, I just made a small donation because of his return.

We all get to have separate opinions.
On the contrary it is based!

This conforms exactly to our intuition about what a "collection" is. Some (exact) number of items which share some meaningful property in common such that we can consider them "the same" for purposes of enumeration and iteration.

In the real world, we also have to decide what our collection is a collection of! Let's say we a pallet of candy bars, each of which is in a display box. If we want to ask "how many X" are on the pallet, we have to decide whether we're asking about the candy bars or the boxes. Clearly we should be able to answer questions about both; just as clearly, operations on the pallet should work with boxes. Because we don't want to open them, and even if we do want to open them, we have to open them, we can't just ignore their existence!

I assert that the extended grapheme cluster is the "box" around bytes in a string. Even if you do care about the contents (very often you do not!) you have to know where the boundaries are to do it! Because a Fitzpatric skin tone modifier all on its own has different semantics from one found within an emoji modifier sequence.

So it makes perfect sense for Swift to provide one blessed way to iterate over strings, and provide other options for when you're interested in some other level of aggregation. Which is what Swift does.
You seem to have forgotten about WWII. (the dictators didn't have nuclear weapons, but it otherwise describes what you say never happens)
AI could make the new Nintendo Switch a powerhouse overnight
> Does not using a CDN impact performance in a crippling way that neither me nor the poster you're replying to understands?

It adds up to 600ms of latency for each roundtrip. A modern website without link rel=preload is several roundtrips– download HTML page, then do JS requests and CSS, so that's ~1.2s of additional latency.

Because he succumbed to AWS' marketing. Surge, mentioned downthread, lets you deploy a folder for free on a worldwide CDN with virtually no setup.
Yes. Each time shooting happens I see 'analysts' thinking everything is full-auto only because of how it looks, and that automatically discredits them.
The big surprise in this article is that she was also the founder of Smartfood which she sold to Frito-Lay for $15m. This afforded her the space to develop the mac and cheese business, which she partly sold to Solera capital who developed it into a business that eventually sold to General Mills for $820m. After the deal with Solera she put her time into selling vegetables at the local farmers market.

It’s a nice profile, but I would really love to read more about how she took such a simple idea (replacing neon orange cheddar powder with white on two different product lines) and quickly developed them into massive businesses and brands. She says in the article that she didn’t like business, but one gets the impression that she was exceptionally good at it.
on the flip side, I would question the premise that owning the building you live in is a good thing to begin with. why is it good for people to have so much of their wealth tied up in a single property? why is it good for people to experience so much friction in moving around and trying different neighborhoods/cities?

imo the american obsession with homeownership is the root of many of our problems. I also notice a common theme in these comments. most of the complaints about landlords seem to come from people who rent older units in highly desirable cities. my renting experience in a cheaper city with lots of new buildings has been quite different.
It seems like you're arguing that every Amazon employee could be absorbed by some other employer.

If so, there is nothing obvious about this, and it would need to be shown.
I wish I knew. I don't share the sentiment, but I understand its roots. And if things get bad enough, the demand will change from ice cream to yet unknown something else. If we take the analogy further, it would appear that we have no real parent figures now. No one wants to talk about the stuff that has to be done that you already alluded to ( lower spending AND higher tax burden ). All we have is a TV show.

Demographics-wise, I assume people younger than me, but I may be oversimplifying it. In practical sense, the more you earn, the less likely you are to support tax increase on yourself so maybe it is more tied to socio-economic status. Sadly, I have no data to back this up.
I agree– AWS bandwidth out is literally 100 times more expensive than CDN and VPN bandwidth out.
Interactively scripting Blender in python is a joy in comparison to a lot of other environments.
Right, then they shouldn't be effected by the rate-limiting, as long as its reasonable. If it was applied evenly to all clients/crawlers, it'd at least allow the possibility for a respectful, well designed crawler to compete.
The FT is expensive, but well worth it (it's good because it's expensive, as journalism is).
Managing state in (standard) FP doesn't compose that well.

Lenses look like a solution to transition 'deep' immutable state, but I find them cumbersome: YMMV.

Object Orientation has excellent composability with regards to state and with minimum fuss.

The step I took is to eradicate mutable OO state, and replace it with a pure OO substrate.
True, but they can't get a sub close enough without being detected.
People feel great about their property value, until they sell and they learn that to buy similar place they often have to pay more that they got from the sale.
It only makes sense if you want to leave everything behind and buy property in another state or country.
Now that people have Bitcoin, hopefully they'll stop using properties as a store of value.
Maybe we need a regulation that will cap rent profits to be no higher than inflation or something similar.
We also need to loosen the regulation so that a family can easily buy land and build a house (only one per family).
Funny, I just started playing around with BSD on my servers this month, thanks for even more motivation to do so RedHat.
What is creating the chaos outside the "developer bubble"? Is progress well managed, or not.

So we reward visible work. The higher flames in Ops the better, to not be invisible.

This is why manager must have domain knowledge.
> It sounds similar in that respect to IBM i, and seems like an evolutionary branch that died off

Even on IBM i it is in decline. Originally everything ran in the single-level store address space, but then they introduced additional non-single-level address spaces (teraspaces). And one of the major things that teraspaces are used for, is to run PASE, which is IBM i's AIX binary compatibility subsystem. And IBM appears to have a preference to ship new stuff in PASE. The single-level store environment is still used by "classic" apps (such as RPG and COBOL), but newer stuff – especially anything written in newer languages such as Java, Python, etc – runs outside of the single-level store in a PASE teraspace.
What if you rent the house out? Can it be an investment then? It would produce a return, positive or negative depending on your costs and the rent you can charge.
Current generations may perform better in various ways while handwriting because we grew up being forced to write by hand for many years while we were developing in childhood. I wonder if upcoming generations that grow up typing instead will perform the same way, or if they’ll do better taking typewritten notes.
> It’s effectively genocide

I would say that this is effectively getting rid of a batch of cells.

It depends on your culture, vision of the world etc.
I do not disable javascript but use an adblocker.
For the sake of comparing apples to apples, the 10MB disk in 1980 that cost $3400 would now cost almost $11,000, whereas the price of a modern 18TB HDD is $400.

You could buy 27 18TB disks for the price of that 10MB disk in 1980. I didn't do the math, but at first glance, it sounds impressive. But even if your mirrored all 27 disks, you'd still not approach a reasonable gain of IOPS/GiB. It really is fascinating to compare!
By what method should we/you compensate the journalist if not subscription, paywall or ads?
surge.sh was born out of a Mozilla-sponsored project to make web hosting cheaper. They are doing it for charity.
In my case at least, I noticed that remembering things has a strong "visual" component. I have nothing close to a photographic memory (I wish), but for example in university, I often remembered facts and formulas by also remembering where on a page they were. I wouldn't quite "read it off" the page in my mind, but just the visualization of the page helped getting to the fact, in a "oh yeah, that's where that was written down" kind of way.

Today, I write down the most important dates and facts on pieces of paper or a little notebook, and just the strong, vivid, very visual recollection of me writing it down (and where) helps tremendously in remembering what was written down.
To be honest, I didn't know there was a real Annie. I've seen, and even purchased, the product at Whole Foods, but figured that was just a corporate brand.

She seems quite nice and business savvy -- built a good brand, then stepped away when it got bigger than she wanted to manage so she can focus on the things she really wants to do. And she's smart enough to not bad-mouth the new owners, when asked about how she thinks about General Mills.
I've sold every ISP-provided TP-Link I've had. The cheap "normal" routers crash all the time. Their firmware quality is worse than abysmal.

Also, does your shoebox apartment have reinforced concrete walls? That would make everything much more difficult.
One nice thing about GraphQL though is that you have the context of the whole query available in resolvers, parsed into a tree (like an AST) for you. You're right that the most obvious/default approach would lead one down the path of making an N+1 query in this scenario, but it's really up to the GraphQL resolvers to decide how to approach it.

In some projects of mine I've taken advantage of this extra available context to make the most efficient bulk database query or REST API call based on the full query, instead of just the subset of input typically used by the resolver.
>I don't think I have a responsibility to drive extra carefully or patch up potholes as I see them.

We agree. We also agree that businesses do not have the responsibility of fixing society.

However, they do have the responsibility not to degrade it.
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Why not drop a local cookie yourself for state?
Former Qwest CEO says refusal to comply with NSA spying landed him in jail: https://www.rt.com/usa/qwest-ceo-nsa-jail-604/

NSLs are alive and real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
They bear the risk of prices going down. If I rent a $100k condo, and the housing market goes down 10%, I don't owe my landlord an additional $10k. (Schematically, my rent even goes down 10%).
It's not a $423,870 house in 2000. It's an 8% mortgage, and we're comparing what that 8% mortgage would get you in 2020.
Whip-its have become pretty popular among the burning man crowd. I remember seeing piles in East Palo Alto parking lots and wondering if they were from bored kids or bored techies.
This is mostly not a matter of construction materials. The oldest houses in New England are all wood frame (much cheaper for the colonists, still is today). As long as you keep the wood dry (maintain the roof and siding), it will last indefinitely.
You might have a look at https://github.com/tobilg/serverless-aws-static-websites to get a single command deploy including CDN and a domain