skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "College kids in private colleges" are a tiny minority, are you sure that they comprise most of those protesting racism in the U.S. e.g. as regards policing and criminal justice? That's quite disappointing if true.

They are tiny minority with a disproportionately loud voice. They are also probably the group where the people with the loudest voices in society tend to be drawn from.
Now, lets not dismiss that idea...'cause that'd be rad
There's a common fallacy that the technically minded are prone to, of assuming that since two different things are 'essentially' the same, the differences between them are superficial and unimportant.

So, for. example, since Scratch. and a text-based language with similar structures (Python, say), are 'essentially' the same, the graphical elements. of Scratch are just sugar, or fluff, and should be ignored.

It's the same mindset that says since anybody can get an FTP account, mount it locally with curlftpfs, and then use SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem to version control it, there's no need for such a thing as DropBox.

Advice for the terminally reductionist-minded: Maybe the things that make Scratch different from Python are actually the most interesting thing about Scratch.
In Chile there's charqui, dried salted horsemeat. It's very flaky, and the mouth-feel of ripping chunks of the super-salty dry meat is very satisfying. It's quite different than american beef jerky, which is tougher, much darker and "juicier", and often has flavor added. The enjoyment of Chilean charqui is similar to anchovies: if you haven't acquired the delicious taste (it smells a bit like fish-food flakes), you will find it repulsive.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q564722#/media/File:Charqui.jp...

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0287/1256/6887/products/Ch...

https://http2.mlstatic.com/D_NQ_NP_2X_757969-MLC42816606727_...
As a professional data scientist, I kinda wish ruby had won for this area, as it's much closer to R conceptually.

Python is fine, the metaobject model is pretty nice, and I've stopped noticing the double underscores ;)
I suspect that it depends on the age of the goat and the amount of fat (if goat is similar to mutton). Older and more fat => more 'distinguished' taste.
The system does have mitigation against the first two failures in isolation (as described in the post). The mitigations did not work correctly in this scenario with the combined failures unfortunately. This is obviously unexcusable, and we need to do better in the future.

To your final question: yes, we using our own load balancing software. We are building a global hosting platform that needs to be able to run on bare metal servers, not an end user application where load balancing is an afterthought. As such we can not use much of the software that a "regular" SaaS application may be able to. Some constraints our system needs to be able to solve:

- Our load balancers handle routing to 100s of thousands of unique deployments (services), all of which need to be accessible and routeable within milliseconds of a request coming in.

- We need to terminate TLS connections for thousands of unique domains.

- We need to be able to carefully control TLS handshakes, to be able to prewarm downstream services for an imminent request for a given deployment based on a TLS client hello SNI, before even having received an HTTP request yet.

- The system needs to handle hundreds of millions of hourly requests.

- The system needs to be able to run on bare metal.

- We currently handle 34 regions globally (up from 28 at the start of the year), which means that all of the data needed to fulfill the above requirements needs to be accessible from all of our PoPs in a matter of milliseconds.

For many companies global load balancing is something they can outsource to AWS, GCP, or Cloudflare. For us, this is core "business logic" that we need to have full control over. It's difficult for us to outsource, and it's questionable if it would be wise for us to do so. Building new systems is obviously always a complex undertaking, and there will be some stumbling stones in the way, but they can be overcome. We are still bullish that our path is the right one, even if we still have a lot of work ahead.

(if this seems interesting, and you want to work with us on building load balancers, among other things: https://deno.com/jobs)
I don't have a problem with wind and solar, but I do have a problem with the enormous amounts of toxic waste produced making solar panels and wind mills. Then there is the problem of what to do with the huge amount of waste material once the wind mills and solar panels need to be replaced. It seems that no one is addressing these issues.

On a side note, eWaste is becoming a biger issue every day as we produce ever increasing "things" to make our life easier.
That's unattainable quality for USA/Canada. Here are such home here as well, but they are not referred as 'manufactured' normally.
They have to remove the risk of being labeled anti-party or dissidents. They do this by appealing to the ideology, at least superficially.

Of course, this is a double edge play. Notice how the message boils down to “the party is right! It’s probably the fault of some dark, greedy figure(s) somewhere!”. But by absolving the government from ever being wrong you remove the possibility of them ever improving and fixing themselves. So someone(s) get sent to jail, others are demoted, and everything is swept unde the rug, but the structural problems remain and will appear again and again.
Can you give me an example of a "structure" in the present day US that was built prior to 1000 AD? I'm not talking about a pit underground, which is not a "structure".

Can you give me an example of a "medieval-era houses in the US" that somebody lives in today? The ones you mentioned were built after the middle ages, your dates are not right and describe the time the settlement was created, not the time the structures were built.

Which Taos structure has been inhabited since the 13th century?
The Taos pueblo structures standing today were built around 1400, not the middle ages, not the 13th century.

The Oraibi _settlement_ has been inhabited for centuries. The structures were built in the 17th century, not the middle ages, not 1150.
Freelancing is very niche. Otherwise corp vpns do the job.
I wonder if you can combine rail sections with different zero-stress temperatures to cancel out across a wider range?
> Scratch is great, but the problem is: where do kids go after scratch?

Good question, I personally think p5.js is a great option. JS is very flexible, and the live environment (at editor.p5js.org) is I suppose very similar to scratch. Drawing elements like squares and circles is as simple as square(), circle(), etc. (with parameters). It's very easy to share an publish (could be on github[1], or just link directly from the editor!). Highly recommended for beginners and any quick interactive work really.

It would be great to have a community page like Scratch though.

[1] See a little procedural tree: https://gustavo-nramires.github.io/ :)
The underlying tech is pretty cool:
https://www.misappliedsciences.com/home/technology.html

Those concerned about privacy should consider that you’re already on camera being captured and having algorithms applied to your likeness. The only change with this implementation is that you’re aware of it, and directly benefit from facial recognition and location tracking.
You're an outlier for sure. Wii internals sounds very hard.
That’s still orders of magnitude less than many American ambulance visits.
We should stop calling it YOLO after the creator quit machine learning.
In case anyone was wondering, most SWAT teams do 8-16 callouts a year. Major metropolitan teams might see 50ish on a busy year. The vast majority of these are hostage situations, but bomb situations and active shooters land in there too.

https://www.ksl.com/article/46295693/when-swat-teams-are-use...
Companies subtly trick users online with 'dark patterns'
The hardest thing for me to understand in Python was the baffling tendency of methods to return None.
The visual block design of Scratch could be directly applied to any programming language AST. And the programming model involving independent "characters" each running its own logic could translate directly to a model of distributed systems.
Sharp seems reasonable, but I've never heard someone use it to describe garlic in isolation. I've only heard people use it when describing garlic flavor as part of a dish eg. "This pasta has a sharp garlic flavor".

Fresh raw garlic really burns, and I think it's quite normal to describe it as hot or spicy in American English.
I wonder if this new 'voegloos' stuff is quite as good at absorbing heat as the 'kedeng kedeng' ones though :)

I don't remember that in the 80s/90s there were such concerns and I had family working on railway maintenance. The climate problem wasn't as big back then but we had some scorching summers too.

Instead the autumn was the all hands on deck period with leaves on the tracks and later in the autumn snow freezing the switches.
The first question that they ask is: “911. Where is the emergency?”

That varies from PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) to PSAP. Local policy dictates what the first thing said to the caller is. And while I believe it is the case that most PSAP's use "where is your emergency" as their first question these days, some still use "what is your emergency" instead. This is one of those things that people who work in public safety (especially dispatchers) love to have religious arguments about.

And just to go back to the point about emergency / non-emergency calls: people call 911 for all sorts of shit that isn't an emergency. And while I've been gone from dispatching for a while, from what I understand, this problem has only gotten worse over the years. Unfortunately 911 has gone from "the number I call if somebody is dying or something is on fire" to "the number I call if there is anything going on that I don't understand or don't like, and want to demand that Somebody Needs To Do Something About It." :-(

Source: former 911 dispatcher and firefighter, and have called 911 a handful of times over the years.
> in that mobility in the US is almost nonexistent

What? I personally know lots of people who went from zip to millionaire.

Even in the 1990s, it was estimated that Microsoft had minted over 10,000 millionaires, not including the value of their homes. And that's just Microsoft.
asking for more $ than their budget probably... they will never admit it though.
I would Pueblo Bonito a "ruin", not a "structure" that somebody could live in.

The Taos Pueblo structures were built ~1400. Can you give an example of a "medieval-era structure" that somebody is living in today?
"there" would also be a nice alternative explanation
"Fun" Fact: ROS (the "Robot operating system") has used XML-RPC under the hood for many years. While it's finally transitioning away with the move to ROS2, I expect that it will still be in use in this space for many years to come, for better or worse.

http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Technical%20Overview
It gets even more complicated when some areas have emergency and non-emergency converged to 911 like my county in WA does.
I am trying to brute force it. It's about half way done at Wealthy Assholes. Need help decrypting the rest, though

edit: I see dzdt has provided something useful.
Ummmm... the machines to mine coal produce even more waste. The same for drilling equipment for oil.

So, what's your argument?
As Nokia owner I hardly have reason to complain versus the aging Samsung devices I still have lying around.
https://theweek.com/articles/531458/troubling-rise-swat-team...

This 2015 article claims 80k deployments per year

And I guess it makes little difference whether it’s the SWAT team that shoots you or just regular cops.
You can use Blockly (Scratch uses a fork of it for the block editor) to do that.
British people are not normally found in lakes or rivers. If they are being driven into those dangerous environments by the weather, perhaps the weather could be considered dangerous.
The north could (and is!) solved by metal roofs that are white or light colored and steep - steep enough that snow slides right off.
> Just to be clear - the pay gap mostly disappears once you control for field, position, and experience.

That doesn't mean anything, because controlling for position means you're factoring out huge disparities--although I will not argue that they necessarily benefit men over women; it is more complex than that--in terms of how performance is evaluated, who gets promoted, and who is offered opportunities for high-quality work experience.

The problem in today's corporate America isn't that people deliberately offer better opportunities and favorable treatment to preferred racial or gender categories (although sometimes they do) but that all this happens subconsciously the whole system is set up so that only a small set of people (the generationally well-connected) have a serious chance of getting a fair shake. The system simultaneously has 85% of its decision makers believing they are executing a meritocracy while, in fact, working to drive predetermined and usually anti-meritocratic results.

> Whereas men will plough through and do it anyway. (Mainly because they have no other choice - men would choose otherwise if women would let them)

Sadly, those men who bear down and suffer because women won't "let them" choose other careers are going to end up ill-treated no matter what they do. The winning strategy for them would be to go overseas, but that's another topic.
A significant percentage of single-family and rowhouses in DC are older Preister's, the actually historic ones by about a century. My own house is a couple years newer than his, 1919 I think. I just put up solar panels without any NIMBY nonsense like this. My only regret is that the south-facing roof is in the rear, so it was not economical to plaster the north-facing front roof with panels and thus trigger any passing reactionaries.
They are phasing them in for express in this area - but the company needed to negotiate with the union.

The point is, retail and warehouse unions don’t translate into retail apocalypse.
See also: the invention of “jaywalking” to criminalize pedestrians and elevate car traffic over foot traffic[1], and the successful effort to dismantle the US’s streetcar systems[2].

[1]: https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_con...
Based on the Fuchsia code that has been posted on HN, the less of it there is, the better off the world is.
Soon on Google Cloud too.
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/arm-on-compu...
Perhaps SNAP!

https://snap.berkeley.edu/
Wenzhou had 20-year land leases and originally planned to charge a third of the value as a renewal fee when the first ones began expiring in 2016, but ended up waiving the fee after protests. https://www.mingtiandi.com/real-estate/research-policy/china...
Violent crime until recently has been generally steadily dropping since the 70s.
LabVIEW and Simulink are pretty easy if your problem makes sense as data flow.
You call a system a democracy where corporations can spend tens of billions on propaganda. And conclude that our brains are the problem.
I assume that Scratch is more accessible to very young kids, who may have trouble with the ergonomics of correctly inputing text. Also, the whole "drag and drop" workflow can potentially be better suited to modern touch-based devices.
According to the Romans it's common to find them there:

> Their form of rule is democratic for the most part, and they are very fond of plundering; consequently they choose their boldest men as rulers....They can endure hunger and cold and any kind of hardship; for they plunge into the swamps and exist there for many days with only their heads above water, and in the forests they support themselves upon bark and roots, and for all emergencies they prepare a certain kind of food, the eating of a small portion of which, the size of a bean, prevents them from feeling either hunger or thirst

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/br...

It's historical writing so it must be true.
AngularJS 1.8? At our company we do all our frontend in HTML 1, no CSS or Javascript. Makes me cringe for the developers in your company who had to learn all this hot mess.
You don't want to buy a phone pre-flashed with GrapheneOS, this was the problem with CopperheadOS - they would only flash the phone if you sent it to them (unattended, across 2+ customs borders) - apparently that caused some internal strife.

Seriously though, pick up a Pixel 6, flash it at home via Web-USB.

My only qualm is that the Google bootloader doesn't show a QR code on boot to verify the kernel image being loaded, instead it simply shows a big yellow warning saying the OS is unsupported with no way of verifying if it's the GrapheneOS image you loaded or one the maid loaded while you were AFK.
Planting trees without any sense of how they would become a viable ecosystem is pointless. Forests are complex ecosystems. Businesses do this because it's the cheapest sustainability strategy. These are economic project that not only don't put a single dent on climate change, they make it worst. The easiest solutions are often the worst.
A few ideas:

* Processing

* Love2D

* Unity / Godot

* Pygame

In the past, Flash filled this niche, I think (although I never programmed in it). Looking at my own list above, and others' responses, I don't think this niche has truly been filled, alas.

Maybe a startup idea?
Since it is designed to simulate a poor network, Xfinite would be a funny name.
Agreed. The old angular might be the peak of JS frameworks. Which industry are you in?
Disagree, I think it's incredibly cool.
>Externally, the US has been eager to strengthen its control over Canada, Mexico and Cuba, the 'backyard' of the US

This is so true. China has either directly invaded or has bad relations with every one of its neighbours. Even the communist ones. Even those seperated by sea. Only reason why this bullying is tolearted is because they are rich now
But there is a downside, it uses more power. I don’t see the upside in this case, hence the question.

It sounds like think so because it’s it’s what you’ve become accustomed to without questioning.
I'm surprised this actually still works. As far as I remember those floppies were super unreliable.

Though this may have been caused by me being in school and having to buy crappy white label ones. Couldn't afford those fancy imation ones with all the games I copied lol.
Since they were co-opted?

Probably.
I see you’re trying to sneak XML into common use again. Haven’t we already suffered enough?
what c++ coro library are you using, folly?

i use that and it makes async programming trivial, relative to callback style programming.
What I’d be concerned isn’t improved ads, but lack of such tech in healthcare and civil services.

All these cameras should be able to predict heart attack, let alone calling ambulance and immediately knowing your entire health history and next best action…
as a Roman can confirm.

I don't eat horse meat myself but my girlfriend loves it and it's really hard to find it in Rome.

Traditional cuisine here is mostly about ovine meat, lamb mostly ("abbacchio")

There's a typical roman food "coppiete" that was traditionally made with dried horse meat (similar to beef jerky) but nowadays the pork meat version is much more popular.

Don't know why exactly.

Strangely enough horse meat is a favorite for many of my roman friends, even though it's not easy to get it.
Policing in the US is shit in part because other social services are under developed that the police have to double for everything. Frankly it’s crisis too because doing social services and policing is a shit job that isn’t going to attract the best and brightest. Add to that it’s a job for Iraq and Afghanistan vets probably suffering from their share of PTSD, and you get a pretty volatile combo
A bit of a blunt statement on my part. There is monitoring on a multitude of other connection related issues (eg TLS handshake failures, missing SNI, etc). We should have had monitoring for this specific failure where the load balancer did not have any healthy backends, but as mentioned in the post, the load balancer was programmed in way that this should never have been able to happen in the first place (as the LB should have un-advertised itself if there are no unhealty backends).

We are capable of learning from past mistakes though, and as such we'll make sure to add more monitoring for these kinds of scenarios so we can be alerted to a root cause earlier. We will do better.
> Scratch is great, but the problem is: where do kids go after scratch? Often they are transitioned directly to professional-grade languages and developer tools, which has the effect of turning what was once fun to something scary and frustrating. Many kids stop their PL development right then and there, writing it off as something “not for me”.

I work at a company that runs coding classes for children.

We created https://woofjs.com/ explicitly for the purpose of transitioning students from Scratch to a text based language. It's not perfect, but worth a look!
Let me help you with brevity, as it relates to his specific points:

“I disagree”
From what i could see from europe from the news:
mental illness: call the police
mass shooting: thoughts and prayer
black person lives: kill him
Ponzis and scams.
> However, when I grew up, abortion wasn't an issue for Protestants, which was the dominant religion where I lived. They considered it a Catholic issue. Abortion became an issue after Republicans began to implement their southern strategy, raising it as an issue to bring evangelists and fundamentalists into their religious right coalition.

I really doubt that the pro-life movement was deliberately orchestrated by a Republican-party conspiracy, as you seem to imply. Though I wouldn't be surprised if the Republicans identified a developing organic movement as political opportunity, which they then seized upon.
Social media( being influencer, etc)
Gaming( either being professional gamer or running servers
Business (online, offline, whatever)
I don't see them making the argument for coal, just pointing out some concerns over solar and wind. And that's fine.
I assume that somewhere in the fine print, you are agreeing to have your location data shared with their commercial "partners"?
We need a model to classify blog posts as natural or synthetic.
I'm seeing big gaps in my memory now that I'm almost 60. For example, I had no recall of a vacation to London this past December; I believe I went because I was shown photos and I remember the trip I made right after to Belfast, but if I didn't have the reminder, I wouldn't have known that I went there.

I'm still working every day writing C++/CUDA/VHDL code, so I suppose I'm a healthy adult.
~96% of us humans don't live in America, most of us don't have 30 year mortgages.
> Besides contributing to climate change, pollution from coal kills half a million people globally each year.

That is an externality. My company gets there profit, other people die, but I do not need to pay for it. How is this legal?
To add on top, there are very few trustworthy investments available to citizens.

Real estate is one of the few assets that is quite secure when it comes to ownership.

Other Asian countries are similar. It’s why your average house in Saigon is more expensive than San Francisco despite a per capita GDP that is < 1/10th that of California.
You’re just asserting your conclusion without any logical elements. I don’t find this appeal to emotion and angry outburst persuasive.